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[Jan. 29th, 2008|10:22 am] |
The Top Amazing True Facts About the Internet
- In 2005, Ms. Emily Hanson, 24, of Boulder, CO spent 37 hours straight surfing MySpace pages and never once left someone a lurid animated graphic in their comments box.
- The term "Internet" originally started out as "Intern-net" because ARPA researchers frequently used it to direct their interns to bring them coffee.
- Richard Perkoney of Athens, OH, has downloaded over 150,000 images of women from the Internet, all of them fully and demurely clothed.
- The first Usenet newsgroup was actually started in 1887 by a group of railroad telegraph operators.
- Mr. Roger Lurren of Corning, Iowa, has had the same email address for over five years, yet has never received a single piece of spam.
- As of July 13th, 2007, the number of Nigerian businessmen needing help laundering funds exceeded the population of Nigeria.
- So-called "dark fiber" refers to the roasted bran husks that are used to wrap and protect fiber optic cables.
- A consortium of children's bathtub soap manufacturers once threatened to sue the Internet over the term "Internet Bubble."
- The world loses $1.5 billion in productivity every year due to people pronouncing "www" as "double-you double-you double-you" rather than "world wide web".
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