By looking at the response to our previous post of amazing facts,we are now expanding this feature and planning to do more posts in this section.So this is kind of series pattern.I will publish more articles on amazing facts.
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 1990 by 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.
An anonymiser is a privacy service that allows a user to visit Web sites without allowing anyone to gather information about which sites they visit.
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