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Tue Jan 15, 2019 3:33 pm
The most commonly searched question beginning with "What is" in 2013 was "What is twerking?"
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 3:33 pm
Web browsers have made the internet easy enough for anyone to use. With relatively cheap personal computers and the benefits of broadband, more than a billion people are using it.

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Tue Jan 15, 2019 3:34 pm
Now that internet access is becoming popular on mobile phones, the next billion users should be online fairly soon.

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Tue Jan 15, 2019 3:34 pm
The most expensive keyword for Google AdWords is "insurance."
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 3:34 pm
The GIF format was invented by Steve Wilke, an engineer at Compuserve in 1987.
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 3:34 pm
Mr. Wilhite maintains the correct pronunciation of the term is "jiff."
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 3:35 pm
The technology behind the Internet began back in the 1960’s at MIT. The first message ever to be transmitted was LOG.. why? The user had attempted to type LOGIN, but the network crashed after the enormous load of data of the letter G. It was to be a while before Facebook would be developed…
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 3:35 pm
The Internet began as a single page at the URL http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html, which contained information about this new-fangled “WorldWideWeb” project, and how you too could make a hypertext page full of wonderful hyperlinks. Sadly, the original page was never saved, but you can view it after 2 years of revisions here.
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 3:35 pm
The first emoticon is commonly credited to Kevin Mackenzie in 1979, but was a rather simple -) and didn’t really look like a face. 3 years later,
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 3:35 pm
Did you know – the Japanese also use emoticons, but theirs are the correct way up instead of on the side, and a lot cuter!
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 3:36 pm
The first webcam was deployed at Cambridge University computer lab – its sole purpose to monitor a particular coffee maker and hence avoid wasted trips to an empty pot.
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 3:36 pm
Although the MP3 standard was invented in 1991, it wouldn’t be until 1998 that the first music file-sharing service Napster, would go live, and change the way the Internet was used forever.
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 3:36 pm
Ever since the birth of the Internet, file sharing was a problem for the authorities that managed it. In 1989, McGill University shut down their FTP indexing site after finding out that it was responsible for half of the Internet traffic from America into Canada. Fortunately, a number of similar file indexing sites had already been made.
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Sound familiar? Even today file sharing dominates Internet traffic with torrent files accounting for over 50% of upstream bandwidth. However, a larger proportion of download bandwidth is taken up by streaming media services such as Netflix.
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 3:36 pm
Google estimates that the Internet today contains about 5 million terabytes of data (1TB = 1,000GB), and claims it has only indexed a paltry 0.04% of it all! You could fit the whole Internet on just 200 million Blu-Ray disks.
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 3:37 pm
Speaking of search – One THIRD of all Internet searches are specifically for pornography. It is estimated that 80% of all images on the Internet are of naked women.
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 3:37 pm
According to legend, Amazon became the number one shopping site because in the days before the invention of the search giant Google, Yahoo would list the sites in their directory alphabetically!
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 3:37 pm
The first ever banner ad invaded the Internet in 1994, and it was just as bad as today. The ad was part of AT&Ts “you will” campaign, and was placed on the HotWired homepage.
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 3:37 pm
The very first spam email was sent in 1978, when DEC released a new computer and operating system, and an innovative DEC marketeer decided to send a mass email to 600 users and administrators of the ARPANET (the precursor of the Internet). The poor sap who had typed it all in didn’t quite understand the system, and ended up typing the addresses first into the SUBJECT:, which then overflowed into the TO: field, the CC: field, and finally the email body too! The reaction of the recipients was much the same fury as users today. It wasn’t until later though that the term “spam” would be born.
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So where does the word spam come from? One urban legend traces it back to the Multi User Dungeons of the 1980’s – primitive multiplayer adventure games where players explored and performed actions using text only. One new user felt the MUD community and experience was particularly boring, and programmed a keyboard macro to type the words SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM repeatedly every few seconds, presumably imitating the famous Monty Python sketch about spam-loving Vikings.


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Twenty hours of video from around the world are uploaded to YouTube every minute. The first ever YouTube video was uploaded on April 23rd 2005,by Jawed Karim (one of the founders of the site) and was 18 seconds long, entitled “Me at the zoo”. It was quite boring, as is 99% of the content on YouTube today.
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 3:38 pm
Internet terrorism is very much a real threat. In February 2008, 5 deep-sea cables that provided Internet connectivity to the Middle East were cut. Curiously, US-occupied Iraq and Israel were unaffected.
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 3:38 pm
The most common form of “cyber terrorism” is a DDOS, or Distributed Denial of Service attack, whereby hundreds if not thousands of systems around the world simultaneously and repeatedly connect to a website or network in order to tie up the server resources, often sending it crashing offline. Anonymous released a tool this year that users could download and set on autopilot to receive attack commands from a remote command source. Similar DDOS attacks are often performed by the use of malware installed on users computers without their knowledge.
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 3:38 pm
The Internet was invented over 40 years ago, in a beer garden! Who says the best ideas don’t come over a drink!
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Right now 3.6 billion people are using the Internet – that’s over half the world’s population connected to the world wide web just like you are.
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