There are now more than 100 million websites on the internet!
Counting only domain name sites with content, Netcraft has tracked the growth of the internet since 1995 and says 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.
Mr Tomlinson sent this first email back in 1971 -- he invented the software that allowed messages to be sent between computers. He even started the convention of using the "@" sign in email addresses (his email was "tomlinson@bbn-tenexa").
Each year in Los Angeles people spend 93 hours sitting in traffic.
That's almost 4 whole days every year just sitting in traffic! Other cities in the top five are San Francisco (72), DC (69), and Atlanta (67), & Houston (63).
This is from the Texas Transportation Institute which recently released its 2005 Mobility Study. Each year the study looks at, among other things, how much time people spend in traffic.
In Japan, the average number of eggs eaten/person/year is 347. The US makes the list with 238 per person per year.
The elephant bird, extinct within the last 1,000 years, laid an egg that was seven times larger than an ostrich egg. These eggs weighed about 12kg apiece, were 30 cm long and could hold up to 8.5L of liquid or the equivalent of 12,000 hummingbird eggs -- sure makes one hell of an omelet...
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