In the month of June this is our first amazing facts series post.Hope you will find it as interesting as previous ones.So over to you..
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'.
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