As i promised in the previous amazing facts post that i will post amazing facts series regularly.So here is the third one.
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.
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