TECH-FACTS.
An anonymiser is a privacy service that allows a user to visit Web
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 1990by Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University in
Montreal, Canada.
Marc Andreessen founded Netscape. In 1993, he had already
developed Mosaic, the first Web browser with a GUI.
It was once considered a letter in the English language. The Chinese
call it a little mouse, Danes and Swedes call it 'elephant's trunk',
Germans a spider monkey, and Italians a snail. Israelis pronounce it
'strudels' and the Czechs say 'rollmops's...What is it? The @ sign.
In the Deep Web, the part of the Web not currently catalogued by
search engines, public information said to be 500 times larger than
on the WWW.
The first search engine for Gopher files was called Veronica, created
by the University of Nevada System Computing Services group
Tim Berners-Lee predicted in 2002 that the Semantic Web would
"foster global collaborations among people with diverse cultural
perspectives", but the project never seems to have really taken off.
In February 2004, Sweden led the world in Internet penetration,
with 76.9 percent of people connected to the Internet. The world
average is 11.1 per cent.
The top visited websites in February2004, including affiliated sites,
were Yahoo!, MSN, the Warner Network, EBay, Google, Lycos and
About.com.
The search engine "Lycos" is named for Lycosidae, the Latin name
for the wolf spider family.
The US International Broadcasting Bureau created a proxy service to
allow Chinese, Iraians and other 'oppressed' people to circumvent
their national firewalls, relaying forbidden pages behind silicon
curtains.
Lurking is to read through mailing lists or news groups and get a feel
of the topic before posting one's own messages.
SRS stands for Shared Registry Server. The central system for all
accredited registrars to access, register and control domain names.
WAIS stands for 'Wide Area Information Servers' - a commercial
software package that allow the indexing of huge quantities of
information, the makes those indices searchable across the Internet.
sites without allowing anyone to gather information about which
sites they visit.
Archie is an information system offering an electronic directory
service for locating information residing on anonymous FTP sites.
On the Internet, a 'bastion host' is the only host computer that a
company allows to be addressed directly from the public network.
'Carnivore' is the Internet surveillance system developed by the US
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), who developed it to monitor
the electronic transmissions of criminal suspects.
Did you know that the original URL of Yahoo! was
http://akebono.stanford.edu/ ?
Developed at the University of Nevada, Veronica is a constantly
updated database of teh names of almost every menu item on
thousands of gopher servers.
The Electrohippies Collective is an international group of 'hacktivists'
based in Oxfordshire, England.
UIML (User Interface Markup Language) is a descriptive language
that lets you create a Web page that can be sent to any kind of
interface device.
In Internet terminology, a demo is a non-interactive multimedia
presentation, the computer world's equivalent of a music video.
Did you know that the name of the famous search engine AltaVista
came into existence when someone accidentally read and suggested
the word 'Vista' on an unclean whiteboard as 'Alta Vista'?
Boeing was the first airline to discover the Y2K problem, way back in
1993.
Did you know that Domain registration was free until an
announcement by the NAtional Science Foundation on 14th
September, 1995, changed it?
The Internet was initially called the 'Galactic network' in memos
written by MIT's J C R Licklider in 1962.
Shokyu Ishiko, a doctorate in agriculture and chief priest of Daioh
Temple in Kyoto has created an online virtual temple which will
perform memorial services for lost information.
A 55 kg laddu was made for Lord Venkateswara at Trumala as a Y2K
prayer offering.
The morning after Internet Explorer 4 was released, certain
mischievous Microsoft workers left a 10 by 12 foot letter 'e' and a
balloon with the message, "We love you", on Netscape front lawn.
If you were a resident of Tongo, a monarchy in the southwest
Pacific, you could own domains as cool as 'mail.to' and 'head.to'.
The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) began the
administration of Internet IP address in North and South America in
MArch 1998.
The testbed for the Internet's new addressing system, IPv6, is called
the 6bone.
The first Internet worm was created by Robert T.Morris, Jr, and
attacked more than 6000 Internet hosts.
According to The Economist magazine, the first truly electronic bank
on the Internet, called First Virtual Holdings, was opened by Lee
Stein in 1994.
The French Culture Ministry has banned the word 'e-mail' in all
government ministries, documents, publications and Web sites,
because 'e-mail' is an English word. They prefer to use the term
'courriel'.
The German police sell used patrol cars over the Internet, because
earlier auctions fetched low prices and only a few people ever
showed up.
Rob Glasser's company, Progressive Networks, launched the
RealAudio system on April 10, 1995.
'Broswer safe colours' refer to the 216 colours that are rendered the
same way in both the PC and Mac operating systems.
Though the world Wide Web was born in 1989 at CERN in
Switzerland, CERN is mainly involved in research for particle physics.
The first computer company to register for a domain name was
Digital Equipment Corporation.
The 'Dilbert Zone' Web site was the first syndicated comic strip site
available on the Internet.
Butler Jeeves of the Internet site AskJeeves.com made its debut as a
large helium balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in 2000.
Sun Microsystems sponsors NetDay, an effort to wire American
public schools to the Internet, with help from the US government.
In Beijing, the Internet community has coined the word 'Chortal' as a
shortened version of 'Chinese portal'.
Telnet is one of the oldest forms of Internet connections. Today, it is
used primarily to access online databases.
Domain names can be really sell at high prices! The most expensive
domain name was 'business.com', which was bought by eCompanies
for $7.5 million in 1999.
The first ever ISP was CompuServe. It still exists, under AOL Time
Warner.
On an average, each person receives 26.4 e-mails a day.
Ray Tomlinson, a scientist from Cambrige, introduced electronic mail
in 1972. He used the @ to distinguish between the sender's name
and network name in the e-mail address.
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) was
designed in 1973.
The Apple iTunes music store was introduced in the spring of 2003.
It allows people to download songs for an affordable 99 cents each.
Satyam Online become the first private ISP in December 1998 to
offer Internet connections in India.
The number of UK Internet users increase by an estimated 75
percent each year.
The Internet is the third-most used advertising medium in the world,
closely catching up with traditional local newspapers and Yellow
Pages.
It took 13 years for television to reach 50 million users- it took the
Internet less than 4 years.
As of now, there are over 260 million people with Internet access
worldwide.
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 1946, the Merriam Webster Dictionary defined computer as 'a
person who tabulates numbers; accountant; actuary; bookkeeper.'
An estimated 2.5 billion hours were wasted online last year as
people waited for pages to download, according to a study
sponsored by Nortel Networks.
AOL says spam is the number one complaint of its customers, and
that it has to block over one billion unsolicited e-mails every day.
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.
In 2003 an Atlanta- base ISP called Earthlink won a lawsuit worth
$16.4 million (US) against a spammer in Buffalo NY, and a $25
million (US) lawsuit against a spammer in Tennessee.
The word 'almost' is the longest in the English language with all the
letters in alphabetical order.
The most commonly used word in English conversation is 'I'.
No words in the English language rhyme with the words angel,
angst, breadth, bulb, depth, eighth, month, ninth, orange, purple,
scalp or twelfth.
The most commonly used letter in the alphabet is E.
The least used letter in the alphabet is Q.
'I am.' is the shortest complete sentence.
Skiing is the only word with double i.
Dreamt is the only word that ends in mt.
The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the
English language.
The first letters of the months July through to November spell
JASON.
There are only 4 words in the English language which end in 'dous'.
They are: hazardous, horrendous, stupendous and tremendous.
The oldest word in the English language is 'town'.
The words 'angry' and 'hungry' are the only two that end in 'gry'.
'Bookkeeper' and 'bookkeeping' are the only 2 words in the English
language with three consecutive double letters.
The word 'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with
just one vowel.
The dot on top of the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford
English Dictionary, is
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
The past tense for the English word 'dare' is 'durst'.
The word 'testify' derived from a time when men were required to
swear on their testicles.
The first English dictionary was written in 1755.
'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left
hand.
The word old English word 'juke' meaning dancing lends its name to
the juke box.
1 out of every 8 letters written is an e.
There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains
ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the,
there, he, in, rein, her, here, here, ere, therein, herein.
The longest one syllable word in the English language is 'screeched'.
The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is
still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are
removed.
All pilots on international flights identify themselves in English
regardless of their country of origin.
"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins
and ends with the letters "und."
The expression to 'knuckle down' originated from playing marbles
(players used to put their knuckles to the ground for their best
shots).
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a
letter is "uncopyrightable."
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses
every letter of the alphabet!
The sentence "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs" uses every
letter of the alphabet and uses the least letters to do so!
'Q' is the least used letter in the English alphabet.
Goddessship is the only word in the English language with a triple
letter.
"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
The word "alphabet" is derived from the first two letters in the
Greek alphabet: "alpha" and "beta".
In the English language there are only three words that have a letter
that repeats six times. Degenerescence (six e's), Indivisibility (six i's),
and nonannouncement (six n's).
The only three words in the English language to have 2 consecutive
u's is vacuum, residuum, and continuum.
English is the most widespread language in the world and is more
widely spoken and written than any other language.
Over 400 million people use the English vocabulary as a mother
tongue, only surpassed in numbers, but not in distribution by
speakers of the many varieties of Chinese.
Over 700 million people, speak English, as a foreign language.
Did you know that of all the world's languages (over 2,700) English is
arguably the richest in vocabulary; and that the Oxford English
Dictionary lists about 500,000 words, and there are a half-million
technical and scientific terms still uncatalogued?
Three-quarters of the world's mail, telexes and cables are in English.
Did you know that more than half of the world's technical and
scientific periodicals are in English?
English is the medium for 80% of the information stored in the
world's computers?
Did you know that English is the language of navigation, aviation and
of Christianity? It is the ecumenical language of the World Council of
Churches.
Five of the largest broadcasting companies in the world (CBS, NBC,
ABC, BBC and CBC) transmit in English, reaching millions of people all
over the world.

The first movie appearance of Dolphy - Sa Dugo At Bayan (I
Remember Bataan)
First TV Show of Dolphy - Buhay Artista
What character is actor Daniel Jacob Radcliffe better known as?
(Harry Potter)
Which actress won an Oscar in 2005 for her role as June Carter Cash
in Walk the Line? (Reece Witherspoon)
What was famous actor Tom Cruise’s first leading role? (Risky
Business)
What was the name of Morgan Freeman’s character in the 2007 film
Bucket List? (Carter Chambers)
What actress holds the record for most Oscars won? (Katherine
Hepburn)
What actor plays Det. John McClane in the Die Hard series (Bruce
Willis)
What real-life couple starred in Overboard? (Goldie Hawn and Kurt
Russell)
What was the name of the 1988 film directed by Tim Burton in
which a deceased couple hire a bio-exorcist with a black and white-
striped suit and wild hair to rid their home of its new owners?
(Beetlejuice)
Johnny Depp starred in this tale of a cursed pirate ship, what is the
title? (Pirates of the Caribbean)
This 1987 film starred Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze. (Dirty
Dancing)
This film centers on a golf course with an obnoxious new member
and a destructive gopher. (Caddyshack)
What 1999 film is a must see for those who hate their jobs? (Office
Space)
In what movie does Harrison Ford play the President of the United
States who must save the his family and other passengers aboard a
hijacked plane? (Air Force One)
Who said “Go ahead, make my day” in the film Sudden Impact?
(Clint Eastwood)
In what movie did Arnold Schwarzenegger say, “I’ll be back!”?
(Terminator)
What movie features the line, “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a
damn!”? (Gone with the Wind)
In the movie Forrest Gump, who said, “My Mama always said, ‘Life
was like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're gonna
get.’” (Tom Hanks)
What movie features the line, “Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to
seduce me.” (The Graduate)
Who said “I can't believe I gave my panties to a geek”? (Molly
Ringwald in Sixteen Candles)
In what film did the phrase, “Show me the money!” first appear?
(Jerry Maguire)
The line “Is this heaven?” “No, it’s Iowa” came from what 1989
baseball film starring Kevin Costner? (Field of Dreams)
What movie’s main character is Lara Croft? (Tomb Raider)
Name the main character in this film with the same name? It stars
Robin Williams. (Patch Adams)
Who played Ethan Hunt in this film? Name the film and the actor.
(Tom Cruise played Ethan Hunt in Mission Impossible)
What movie features the character Wolverine (X-Men)
Who plays Gracie Hart? What movie? (Sandra Bullock in Miss
Congeniality)
What is the name of the main character in Independence Day? (Will
Smith)
What movie is the character Colonel Koetzee from? (Blood
Diamond)
In what movie is the main character named Evan Nolan? (Evan
Almighty)
This movie is set in the bayous of Louisiana and centers around the
ten Biblical plagues. (The Reaping)
This movie stars Haley Joel Osment as a little boy who can see dead
people. The movie co-stars Bruce Willis. (The Sixth Sense)
This movie stars a big green ogre who falls in love with a beautiful
princess. (Shrek)
In this film, Nicholas Cage, as Benjamin Franklin Gates, decodes
riddles and follows clues left by the country’s forefathers to find
treasure. (National Treasure)
Set in 1912, this movie centers on a sinking ship. (Titanic)
Rick Deckard is a hunter of replicants in this 1982 film. A group of
replicants make it to Los Angeles to seek out a way to extend their
life span and Deckard must exterminate them before it’s too late.
(Blade Runner)
Steve Martin fathers 12 kids in this comedy. (Cheaper by the Dozen)