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  • 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.
  • Did you know that Domain registration was free until an announcement by the NAtional Science Foundation on 14th September, 1995, changed it?

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