Amazing facts series about computers and internet part:2

This amazing facts series is coming after so many days but after this post i will try to be consistent in writing amazing fact series.
  • 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.

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