Did You Know

“DID YOU KNOW” is going to be a regular segment where I bring you IT facts.

Let’s start:

Did You Know That:

1.      Google began as a research project in 1996 and got its name from the misspelling of the word “Googol (the mathematician’s term for the number one followed by one hundred zeros).

2.      Google.com domain went online in 1997.

3.      CompuServe was the first ever ISP.

4.      The very first web browser was created by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web

5.      The first e-mail was sent over the Internet in 1972

6.      The two founders of Yahoo! are David Filo and Jerry Yang; they were both Ph.D. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. The Web site started out as "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web” in 1994

7.      The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle” but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the general definition of a yahoo: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth.

8.      The world’s first web server was the NeXT computer used by Tim Berners-Lee

9.      The “www” part of a web site e.g (www.google.com) is optional and not required by any web policy or standard.

10.  All three letter word combinations from aaa.com to zzz.com are already registered as domain names.