Did you know that symbolics.com was the first ever domain name registered online? Yes, on March 15, 1985 Symbolics Computer Corporation in Massachusetts inadvertently made history by registering the historic domain, symbolics.com though that was later sold to XF.com Investments.
FYI, here’s a listing of the 100 first registered .COM domains.
As the former product manager for Google, Marissa Mayer once revealed in an interview »
The prime reason the Google home page is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn’t know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. Infact it was noted that the submit button was a long time coming and hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life.
In 1995, Bob Metcalfe coined the phrase “The Web might be better than sex”.
The Dilbert Zone was the first comic website on the Internet.
Survey: “Do you own an Amazon Kindle?” 2%: “I don’t know”
On the social gaming realm FarmVille is very much popular. But, not everybody likes FarmVille. There is even a Facebook group (with 100,000+ fans) devoted to hating it, called “I Hate Farmville”.
3 years, 2 months and 1 day… the time Twitter took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet. Read more Twitter facts at jeffbullas.com
“Student” is the number one occupation of Google+ users. Here are some other cool facts and stats about Google+ »
- More than 2/3 of its users are male
- The Google +1 button is used more than five billion times per day
- Google+ is adding 625,000 new users every day
- More than 42 percent of Google+ users are single
Statistics: Google Blog, Techcrunch, Google Investor Reports.
The first real “Internet” was funded by DARPA »
The Internet, especially the underlying technology of the Internet, was built by governments. The first real “Internet” was funded by DARPA, the US military’s absolutely insane mad science division. Tim Berners-Lee, who created the World Wide Web, did that because CERN, the EU nuclear science arm, was paying him to invent it.
…which means the color he can see best is blue. That also happens to be the color that dominates the Facebook website and mobile app. “Blue is the richest color for me,” he told the magazine. “I can see all of blue.”
