Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Homework Help: Internet Facts



This post isn’t going to help you with all your homework needs but it makes for a great break and some good reading.  I came across  McKremie the other day while preforming a search about the Internet.  In their blog post you can read 101 facts about the Internet .  It’s also some good World Wide Web knowledge just in case you ever find yourself on Jeopardy.  You might be asked in what year was the World Wide Web created.  (Could happen)
Some of the more interesting facts are:

-The White House launched their first website in October of 1994 under the Clinton Administration.

-The oldest website that is still around is Symbolics.com which went online in March 1985.

-More than one million domain names are registered every month.

-75 percent of the music that is available for download has never been purchased.

-Pictures of naked women make up more than 80% of all the pictures on the Internet.

-If you search on Google for “241543903” you will find random pictures of people with their heads in the freezer.

You can read on and see all the crazy reading for yourself.  Some are hard to believe but I’m sure they did a good job at researching the facts behind all these.  It would also be nice to see how interesting the facts from ten years from now might look.