AMAZING TECH FACTS OF INTERNET

Ø Yahoo! Derived its name from the word YAHOO coined by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels. A Yahoo is a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human.
Ø According to the research the first search engine was Archie, created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a student of Montreal, Canada.
Ø The top visited websites yearly are Yahoo, MSN, the Time Warner Network, eBay, Google, Lycos and About.com.
Ø The world average of people connected to Internet is 11.5 per cent.
Ø Marc Andreessen founded Netscape. In 1993, he developed Mosaic, the first web browser with the GUI.
Ø The search engine “Lycos” is named after Lycosidae, The Latin name for the wolf spider family.
Ø The @ sign used in email address has its own significance. It was once considered as an English letter. The Chinese call it the “little mouse”. The Danes and Swedes call it “Elephant’s Trunk”. Germans call it spider monkey. Italians call it snail. Israelis call it by name “Strudels” and the Czechs say it as “roll mops”.
Ø Lurking is to read through mailing lists or news groups and get a feel of the topic before posting ones own messages.
Ø WAIS stands for ‘Wide Area Information Servers’ – a commercial software package that allows the indexing of the huge quantities of information, and then makes them searchable across the Internet.
Ø The original URL of Yahoo! was http://akebono.stanford.edu/?
Ø UIML (User Interface Markup Language) is a descriptive language that lets you create a web page that can be sent to any kind of interface device.
Ø Boeing was the first airliner to discover the Y2K problem.
Ø On an average, each person receives 26.4 emails a day.
Ø The first Internet worm was created by Robert T. Morris, Jr, and attacked more than 6000 Internet hosts.
Ø The first computer company to register for domain name was Digital Equipment Corporation.
Ø Google got its name from the mathematical figure googol, which denotes the number ‘one followed by a hundred zeros’.
Ø Telnet is the oldest form of Internet connections. Today it is used for accessing online databases.
Ø The most expensive domain name was ‘business.com’, which was bought by ecompanies for $7.5 million in 1999.
Ø The first ever ISP was CompuServe. It still exists under AOL.
Ø Ray Tomlinson introduced electronic mail in 1972. He used @ to distinguish between senders name and network name in email address.
Ø Satyam online became the first private ISP to offer Internet connections in India.
Ø The Internet is the third mostly used advertising medium in the world, closely catching up with traditional local newspaper and yellow pages.
Ø The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
Ø After English, Japanese and German are the most used languages on the Net.
Ø The top three companies spending most on web advertising are Microsoft, Amazon.com and TRUSTe.
Ø PhotoHighway.com introduced the first Internet photography site to offer software that allows people to load photos directly from digital camera to a website.