The Internet Game

[gkd_uk]

Lets learn abit more about the Internet. Members can post info about the internet. The info you post must be useful information.

Start browsing the Internet and do some research now

Thanks


I'll start:

The Internet is a worldwide collection of computer networks

 

[bochgoch]

80 percent of all websites on the Internet today are in English

[is that the sort of thing you're after?]

 

[temi]

Or that eBay adWord spending account for 6% of Google AdWords revenue

 

[gkd_uk]

Yes that's fine We can then all learn something this way

 

[gkd_uk]

According to the CIA's World Factbook there is around 37.80 million internet users in the U.K.

 

[bochgoch]

Al Gore coined the phrase 'information super highway' in 1981

 

[temi]

Tim [SIZE=-1]Berners-Lee invented world wide web[/SIZE]

 

[daniel63]

Before Internet was United States Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPANET). In 1969 was linking many universities and research centers.
The first two nodes that formed the ARPANET were UCLA and Stanford Research Institute.

 

[gkd_uk]

The first quarter of 2000 marked the first time the number of women online in the US surpassed that of men, according to a report by Media Metrix and Jupiter Communications.