Internet2 Speed Record
On 14 April 2004 a team of engineers from Sprint Corporation in San Jose, California, USA, and the Swedish National Research and Education Network successfully transmitted 838.86 gigabytes of data over a distance of 16,343 km (10,155 miles) in 1,588 seconds. The resulting record value of 69,073 terabit metres-per-second was achieved over public networks using IPv4. The start and end points of the transmission were San Jose, California, USA, and the University of Luleå , Luleå , Sweden.Largest Free Email Provider
MSN Hotmail is the world's largest free web-based e-mail service provider, with more than 110 million active subscribers as of January 2003. The Hotmail user base has grown more than 10 times since January 1998 – more than the world population has grown in the last fifty years – and on most days, the number of new people signing up for an account is greater than the number of babies born into the world!
An average of 40 million Hotmail emails are sent each day, and MSN have estimated that their service saves 500 trees – that's about 72,720 kg – of paper per day.[quote]Largest Internet Search Engine
Google, with around 2.215 billion pages, has the largest continually-refreshed index of webpages of all the world's search engines. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Their first office was a garage in Menlo Park, California, USA, which opened in September 1998 with a staff of four people.
Largest Single E-commerce Transaction
If you're feeling flush you might end up buying a few CD's over the net. Or possibly a holiday - a couple of clicks can get you anywhere in the world. Business tycoon Mark Cuban, however, made these regular web transactions look like small change when he spent $40 million on his own luxury Gulfstream V jet. The jet was the second sold by the Gulfstream company over their website. Cuban's purchase is the largest ever single internet transaction.
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Most Expensive Internet Domain Name
The Internet domain name business.com was sold by Texan entrepreneur Marc Ostrofsky on Dec 1 1999 for £4.6 million ($7.5 million).
Marc, a 38-year-old Houston media entrepreneur, bought the domain name from a London Internet service provider for $150,000 in 1996, the same year his children's nanny won $21 million in the Texas lottery. Ostrofsky is not only a savvy businessman but also a very thoughtful husband. When he sold the domain name www.eflowers.com for $25,000 – and 50 cents on every transaction at that site – he made eFlowers promise to send his wife a dozen roses each month for the rest of her life!
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Who keeps track of all the domain names? In 1993, the US Department of Commerce created InterNIC to maintain a central database that contains all the registered domain names and the associated IP addresses in the U.S.
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Dot com might be the most famous and sought after part of a web address but there are some 243 countries with domains that could be quite handy. For example, the Italian government has ruled that non-Italian organisations could now register an .it domain - handy for buy.it, sell.it or want.it. Other popular countries are Turkmenistan with its .tm address, the Kingdom of Tonga's .to (fly.to, takeatrip.to) Austria with .at and American Samoa with .as. The European Union is investigating the idea of adding a new domain name to the list - .eu.
FIVE MOST EXPENSIVE DOMAIN NAMES
Business.com – $7.5 million
AsSeenOnTv.com – $5.1 million
Altavista.com – $3.3 million
Wine.com – $2.9 million
Autos.com – $2.2 millionBest-Selling Video Games
The Nintendo game Super Mario Brothers has sold a total of 40.23 million copies worldwide. The 26 games featuring Mario, the character who first appeared in the arcade game Donkey Kong in 1982, have sold more than 152 million copies in total since 1983. More than 40% of US households own a Nintendo game system.Most Expensive Computer Game Development
The Dreamcast computer game titled Shenmue cost over $20 million to develop. The project took seven years to complete, and was the brainchild of Japanese developer Yu Suzuki, head of Sega's game-development AM2 division.
Sega was founded in 1951 and has since become a world leader in interactive digital entertainment. Sega says their future is about using cyberspace to create an out-of-this-world gaming environment. The mastermind of Shenmue, Yu Suzuki, began working for Sega in 1983 as a programmer and game producer, and a year later he created the world's first simulation arcade game, Hang On.
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So why is Suzuki's Shenmue so good!? It might have an everyday storybook subject matter – a Japanese high-school student, Ryo Hazuki, goes on a mission to unravel the mystery surrounding his father's death – but you just have to see the game to believe it! Suzuki rounded up 100 other men to help him concoct this grand story that has amazing graphics and an innovative system that far exceeds any games before it.
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If aliens came down and kidnapped Suzuki and he could only take one game with him, guess what it would be? Mah-jongg (the ancient Japanese tile-matching game), which is the only game in the world more complex than his baby Virtua Fighter.
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