Google got its name from the mathematical figure googol, which denotes the number 'one followed by a hundred zeros'.
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!
Researchers consider that the first search engine was Archie, created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
It took 13 years for television to reach 50 million users-
it took the Internet less than 4 years.
Boeing was the first airline to discover the Y2K problem, way back in 1993.
The Internet is the third-most used advertising medium in the world, closely catching up with traditional local newspapers and Yellow Pages.
1 out of 6 people used the Internet in North America and Europe, as per a 1999 survey.
The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
In 2002, the average Internet user received 3.7 spam messages per day. The total rose to 6.2 spam messages per day in 2002. By 2007, it is expected to reach 830 messages per day.
A terminology industry research firm called Basex says that unsolicited e-mail cost $ 20 billion in lost time and expenses worldwide in 2000.
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