amazing- IT and Internet
The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com
Bill Gates began programming computers at age 13
Google receives about 200 million search queries each day. More than half of which come from outside the United States. During the heviest traffic more than 2,000 search queries are answered each second
More than 80% of home pages on the Web are in English. German has only 4.5% and Japanese 3.1%
The percentage of email messages in English is estimates to vary between 60% and 85%
The words "electronic mail" was introduced 30 years ago. Queen Elizabeth of Britain sent her first email in 1976
Sweden has the most affordable broadband internet access in Europe
The highest amount of money paid for a domain name is for business.com, $7.5 million
The save icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk with the shutters on backwards
Internet was designed to survive thermonuclear assault"
Every single possible 3 character.com domain has been registered
Internet advertising is the fastest growing advertising medium
Bill Gates house was partially designed using a Macintosh computer
All domain names in Slovakia are free
88% of websites have no discernible traffic
Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month
28% of IBM employees are Indians
Each day an average American depends on about 250 computers
Microsoft is the biggest developer of Mac software outside Apple
The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of 5 Megabytes
Maps are often among the top words submitted to Internet search engines
The most popular non-HTML format files return from Google is PDF-format
Dr. Lieven P. Van Neste is the owner of over 200,000 domain names
The top searchwords in Google where September 19, 2005 "hurricane rita"
Only 10% of all the pages on the Internet make it to the search engines
In 1982 Time magazine named the computer its "Man of the Year"
Microsoft writes the code for autopilot systems in all major airplanes
Internet is one of the fastest growing forms of advertising
In computer language, wysiwyg is an acronym for "what you see is what you get"
About one-third of recorded CDs are pirated
In the early days of computers, black and white monitors were thought sufficient to satisfy all future data processing needs
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