1951: Zenith Radio Corp introduces cable television.

1951: Zenith Radio Corp introduces cable television.

The first Internet Service Provider (ISP) was CompuServe.

Mobile phone technology has reached a point where there is almost no difference between a mobile phone and a laptop, except in the size.

Approximately 3 million cell phones are sold every day.

World of print is changing to digital textbooks, but college students raised on technology still prefer traditional paper editions.

Snoopy’s Christmas by the Royal Guardsmen is perhaps the best Christmas song ever. Many people call it ‘Snoopy vs The Red Baron’, but that is not the Christmas version.



MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Two-thirds of all homes in the United States have a broadband Internet connection.

Google generates a lot of their own power with their solar panels.

Symbolics.com is credited with being the world’s first domain name.

On average, U.S. onliners view 100 videos per month each.

Two-thirds of American Internet users shop online.

The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was the first cell phone sold in the U.S. It was launched on April 11, 1984, and weighed two pounds.

Ten hour’s worth of video is uploaded every minute on YouTube.

The first known cell phone virus, Cabir.A, appeared in 2004.

In 1993, Boeing was the first to discover the Y2K problem.

About 20 percent of the videos on YouTube are music related.

In 1997, Google were launched. Google was created by Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Stanford University.

May 21, 2010

This date marked the 30th anniversary of the video game Pac-Man. The “I’m Feeling Lucky” button was replaced with a button that read: “Insert Coin.” After pressing the button, the user would begin playing a Google-themed game of Pac-Man. Pressing the “Insert Coin” button a second time would start a two-player version that included Ms. Pac-Man for player 2.

Domain registration was free until the National Science Foundation decided to change this on September 14, 1995.

Since 2008, video games have outsold movie DVDs.

The first public cell phone call was made on April 3, 1973 by Martin Cooper.

In the United States, online advertising is a $21 billion dollar business.

There are 160 billion e-mails sent daily, 97 percent of which are spam.

The URL: http://akebono.stanford.edu/ used to be the original home of Yahoo!