Some Interesting Facts

According to Netcraft, an independent technology reviewer, there are now more than 100 million websites on the internet!

(Counting only domain name sites with content, they tracked the growth of the internet since 1995 and say of the 100m, around 48 million are active sites that are updated regularly. When it began observing sites through the domain name system in 1995, there were 18,000 web sites in existence.)

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In the last 12 years, IBM has received 29,021 patents - more than any other company or individual in the world. In 2005 alone they received 2,974 U.S. patents

(IBM inventions and discoveries include the following: DRAM (dynamic random access memory) cells | Magnetic storage | The relational database | The RISC (reduced instruction set computer) chip architecture | Fractals | Superconductivity)

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Google paid $900 million to be MySpace's search provider. (They're my search provider too, but they didn't offer me a paisa for the privilege.)

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On Saturday, August 18 1982 - The first CD was produced at Philips' factory in Germany.