-Wikipedia appeared in 2001. It now has more than 13 million articles in 200 languages.
-Onboard recorder, installed on aircraft to record information about the technical condition of all devices, is called a “black box”. In fact, it has the shape of a ball or cylinder, and its color is red or orange to make it easier to find in the event of an accident.
-Private communications company Ncell conquered Everest. In the interests of Internet users, it was the first in the world to install wireless Internet equipment on the world’s highest mountain peak in the Himalayas.
-To create a half-hour cartoon using traditional technology, you need to draw more than 18,000 drawings.
-Domain. TV, which likes to register TV sites, is not a common domain such as COM or ORG, At first, it went to the small state of Tuvalu, which is located in Oceania. The Tuvaluan government has decided to sell the rights to the domain and now receives more than $ 2 million a year for its use, which is about one-tenth of the state’s total revenue.
-There was no call in the first telephone, patented in 1876 by Alexander Bell – the call was made through a handset with a whistle.
-In the city of Queensland (Australia) there is a police unit, whose responsibilities are to ensure the security of wireless networks and warn their owners of possible danger. Wireless police are designed to eliminate the vulnerability of home networks and to prevent attempts by criminals to use them.
-The first commercial hard drive with a capacity of 1 terabyte was introduced by Hitachi in 2007.
-India is the world leader in spam.
-In January 2011, an unknown hacker hacked Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page.
-As a result of a survey conducted in February 2011, it was found that every second Internet user reports a lie on social networks.
-When creating the sound of virus detection in Kaspersky Anti-Virus used a real pig.
-The largest fine on the Internet – $ 107.7 million American opponents of abortion were punished for creating a site that posted photos of doctors who performed abortions, marked “wanted”.
-The largest online auction eBay was registered in 1995. The most expensive lot of the auction is an oil refinery, but at that time no bid was made, and the factory remained unsold. The most expensive lot that was sold – a Gulfstream V jet, was bought for $ 40 million.
-One of the most expensive domains in the history of www.diamond.com was sold for $ 7.5 million. The site, located at this address, is dedicated to jewelry and jewelry.
-The largest time Internet cafes opened was on November 28, 2000, in New York and had 628 computers.
-The whole history of spam began on May 3, 1978, when the first advertising letter was sent urging to buy a computer system from DEC.
-The first world leader to use e-mail was Queen Elizabeth II in 1976.
-The first video that was uploaded to YouTube was called “I’m at the Zoo”, and it was pretty boring. Like 99% of all YouTube content today.
-The first webcam in history was tested and launched in 1991 in the computer lab of Cambridge University. Its sole purpose was to control the individual coffee maker and to warn that the coffee was running out. It is currently down since it was disabled on August 22, 2001.
