1. In 1996, Americans spent an average of 30 minutes a month surfing the World Wide Web.
2. The average American Spends 27 hours a month online, this according to Nielsen’s Three Screen Report for the 4th quarter of 2008.
3. The Web was invented in 1989 by a British physicist named Tim Berners-Lee
4. It is just one of the many services that operate on the Internet. Other services include e-mail, newsgroups and FTP.
5. The Internet, in turn, was created by ARPA to connect computers of various researches geared towards regaining technological over Soviet Russia after the Russian space program successfully launched the Sputnik satellite. It was on October 29, 1969 when 2 computers from UCLA and SRI International got connected thus realizing what the internet became later, the ARPANET.
6. The first proposal for a “large hypertext database with typed links” was written by Tim Berners-Lee on 1989 but generated little interest
7. Berners-Lee saw the Web as a network based means of sharing information that works on any computer running on any OS
8. The first Web site was built at CERN. CERN is the French acronym for European Council for Nuclear Research and is located at Geneva, Switzerland.
9. A NeXT computer was the world’s first Web server
10. The first Web server software was CERN httpd
11. The first browser, also invented by Berners-Lee was called the WorldWideWeb. The first successful build was released on December 25, 1990
12. Mike Sendall was Berners-Lee’s boss at CERN. He approved the purchase of the NeXT computer where Tim wrote the beginnings of the Web.
13. The first Web browser was already capable of downloading and displaying movies, sounds and any file type supported by the operating system. The concept of stylesheets was already in place when the first browser was released.
14. The first browser was also the first editor for creating web pages
15. WorldWideWeb was programmed with Objective C
16. The first browser could already open http:, news:, ftp: and browse local file: spaces
17. The World Wide Web took advantage of things already available on the internet like TCP/IP and DNS. TCP/IP took shape way back 1973 through the work of Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn. DNS was created in 1983 by Paul Mockapetris and his friends. In fact, before the Web, email was already using TCP/IP and DNS.
18. Hypertext came out as an idea way back in 1945 by Vanevar Bush. The term hypertext was actually coined by Ted Nelson
19. Hypertext is implemented in the Web as links in the browser window. Links are references to text that the user wants to access. When a link is clicked, the referenced text is displayed or bought into focus. The World Wide Web is the most extensive implementation of hypertext but it is not the only one. A computer help file is actually a hypertext document.
20. What Tim Berners-Lee did when he invented the World Wide Web was to figure out a way to use hypertext and connect it with DNS and TCP/IP so that links found in other computers can be displayed in the browser.
21. The website of the world’s first web server is http://info.cern.ch/
22. The URL of the first web page was http://nxoc01.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html. Although this page is not hosted anymore at CERN, a later version of the page is posted at http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html.
23. A screenshot of the world’s first browser running inside Tim Berners-Lee computer can be seen at this page: http://info.cern.ch/NeXTBrowser.html
24. In December 1991, the first institution in the US to adopt the web was the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). True to the Berners-Lee vision, it was used to display an online catalog of SLAC’s documents.
25. The first browser that made the web available to PC and Mac users was Mosaic. It was developed by National Center for Supercomputing (NCSA) led by Marc Andreessen in February, 1993. Mosaic was one of the first graphical web browsers and led to an explosion in web use.
26. Near the end of 1992 there were only 26 web servers around the world. In October 1993, the number of web servers worldwide grew to 200.
27. April 30, 1993 is an important date for the Web because on that day, CERN announced that anyone may use WWW technology freely.
28. Marc Andreessen started Netscape and released Netscape Navigator in 1994. During the height of its popularity, Netscape Navigator accounted for almost 90% of all web use.
29. The first International Conference on the World Wide Web was held in 1994 at CERN.
30. It was also in the Conference Dinner in May 26, 1994 where the first Best of WWW awards were given. It was by pure coincidence that the jazz band that played during the awards was called “Wolfgang and the Were Wolves”
31. The best overall site for 1994 was NCSA’s web site.
32. Microsoft released Internet Explorer on 1995. This event initiated the browser wars. By bundling Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system, by 2002, Internet Explorer became the most dominant web browser with a market share over 95 percent.
33. The latest entry to the browser business is Google Chrome on September 2008
34. As of July 2009, Microsoft Internet Explorer accounted for 67.68 percent of all browsers used. Mozilla Firefox was used by 22.47 percent of all users.
35. The browser wars refer to the battle for dominance in the late 1990s between Netscape Navigator and the eventual winner Microsoft Internet Explorer. Currently, the browser war is raging between Microsoft Explorer and emerging competitors like Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Google Chrome and Opera.
36. When Netscape opened for public trading, on the first day, Jim Clark, co-owner, earned $663 million.
37. The top thee dominant Web servers according to NetCraft’s July 2009 Web Server Survey of 239,611,111 sites are Apache HTTP Server (113 million sites), Microsoft IIS (56 million), and qq.com’s QZHTTP (30.3 million)
38. Apache web server was the first to achieve the 100 million installation milestone. This was achieved on 2009.
39. Open source technology dominates the web. The most common software used for webserving is called LAMP standing for the Linux operating system, Apache web server, MySQL database and PHP scripting language
40. Google has its own web server called the Google Web Server or GWS. As of July, 2009, only 14.2 million sites worldwide use GWS and is the fourth widely used server.
41. Apache HTTP web server has been the most dominant server since 1996.
42. The development of standards for the World Wide Web is managed by the W3C or the World Wide Web consortium.
43. The W3C was founded in October, 1994 and is headed by Tim Berners-Lee
44. The need for standards arose when the web gained popularity, various vendors were making different versions of HTML thus making web pages incompatible with each other. The primary mission of the W3C is to ensure compatibility and agreement among industry members in the adoption of new standards.
45. The first White House website was launched during the Clinton-Gore administration on October 21, 1994
46. Even though worldwide is a valid English word, WWW is spelled World Wide Web not Worldwide Web. For a while there was a hyphen in the name: thus World-Wide Web. The hyphen caused a lot of confusion for people who were not so grammatical. Tim Berners-Lee decided to drop the hyphen.
47. WWW is often abbreviated to W3. Another way of abbreviating World Wide Web is to use Web.
48. However, the author of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams once said that WWW is the only abbreviation he knows that takes longer to say than what it actually stands for.
49. Contemporary media uses the words World Wide Web and Internet interchangeably. However they are not one and the same. The internet is the hardware and software infrastructure used to connect computers while the World Wide Web is just one of the services running on the internet
50. The “www” part of a website (www.google.com) is optional and is not required by any web policy or standard.
51. Computers who are connected to the internet all have IP addresses. By using this addressing scheme (called IPv4), each computer in the internet is capable of reaching up to 4.3 billion other computers.
52. Despite IPv4’s 4.3 billion unique addresses, it is forecasted that by 2011, the address space will be consumed. A newer scheme called IPv6 is slowly replacing IPv4 in some countries. IPv6 has the capability to address 2¹²⁸ computers. To give perspective to this very big number, the world’s population of 6.5 billion people as of 2006 can be given 2⁹⁵ unique addresses.
53. The blue colored links on a web page is just a browser default although way back on the days when monitors only had 16 colors, blue was the darkest color that did not affect text legibility.
54. As of August 22, 2009, the most popular website according to Alexa.com and Ranking.com is Google.com. Next is Yahoo.com
55. Google is named after googol, which is 1 followed by 100 zeroes. According to Google’s web site, their name reflects the company’s mission to organize the vast amount of information out there in the World Wide Web
56. The supposed reason for Google.com’s sparse homepage was that its owners did not know HTML well enough that even the first versions of the homepage did not contain the submit button. The only way to make Google start searching was to hit the Return or Enter key.
57. Although Google and Yahoo are today’s top search engines, they certainly were not the first. One of the earliest search engines, Gopher Search Engine, was already working since 1991.
58. Gopher was another application working on the internet and was an alternative to the World Wide Web. The main reason for its present day obscurity is that web browsers are much more user friendly and, unlike Gopher, are able to integrate text and graphics
59. The oldest, still working .com website belongs to symbolics.com. It was registered way back March 15, 1985.
60. Vice President Al Gore’s misinterpreted statement about taking the initiative to create the Internet was one of the main causes of his defeat during the 2000 presidential elections.
61. Al Gore was credited by Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf as the first political leader who recognized the importance of the internet.
62. The number of hits returned by Googling “internet” is 1.6 billion.
63. If you Google “sex”, the number of hits is approximately 637 million while “money” returns 913 million. It’s kind of reassuring though that “love” returns more than 1.4 billion hits while family has more than 1.1 billion hits.
64. The business of web hosting in 2009 is estimated to be almost 51.2 billion dollars.
65. The largest market is in Asia with a value of 15.7 billion
66. By 2014, the value of web hosting is forecasted to be more than 73 billion dollars.
67. Intel’s rival chipmaker AMD estimated the number of internet users in January, 2009 to be 1.4 billion.
68. Vint Cerf coined the term internaut to refer to any technically capable professional user of the internet.
69. All three letter word combinations from aaa.com to zzz.com are already registered as domain names.
70. There is a race to register generic and sellable domain names. This practice is called domain name speculation and is the intent of the owner to sell them later for profit. Recent domain names that have been sold for a million dollars include business.com and sex.com
71. 1 million domain names are registered every month
72. Domain name speculation using the names of famous people is considered cybersquatting and could be a violation of intellectual property laws in some countries. Bruce Springsteen, Kevin Spacey, and Julia Roberts, all have at one time been victimized by cybersquatters.
73. 100 percent of the top 10000 family names are already registered as domain names.
74. In 1996, Yahoo’s front page did not include email. It was only in the 3^rd quarter of 1996 when the first webmail site Hotmail was launched. The webmail service that came to be known as Yahoo Mail was launched much later on October 2007.
75. According to AT&T vice president Jim Cicconi, 8 hours of video is uploaded into YouTube every minute. This was on April 2008. On May 21, 2009, YouTube receives 20 hours of video every minute.
76. YouTube’s bandwidth requirements to upload and view all those videos cost as much as 1 million dollars a day and growing. The revenues generated by YouTube cannot pay for its upkeep.
77. The bandwidth consumed by YouTube in 2007 is comparable to the entire bandwidth consumed by the whole internet in 2000
78. There is a company named Universal Tube and Rollform Equipment, a manufacturer of metal machine tubes and pipes. Its website, utube.com often got overloaded by traffic meant for YouTube. The website was later renamed utubeonline.com
79. The contents of most of today’s active websites are stored in databases which are largely invisible to search engines. Termed the Deep Web, it contains data such as book prices, airfares and other stuff that will never surface unless somebody queries for that information.
80. The Deep Web and all that hidden information is what prevents search engines from giving us a definitive answer to simple questions like “How much is the cheapest airfare from New York to London next Thursday”?
81. The size of the Deep Web has been estimated to be 400 to 550 times larger than the searchable web
82. In a recent survey conducted by security specialist Symantec of the 100 dirtiest websites, 48 percent feature adult content
83. Around 75 percent of the music that is available for download has never been purchased and it is costing money just to be on the server.
84. Of the 13 million music files available on the web, 52,000 tunes accounted for 80% of download.
85. Naked women make up 80 percent of all the pictures on the internet
86. By 2012 it has been said that there will be 17 billion devices connected to the internet. In most of Asia, mobile phones are leading the way to internet connectivity
87. The maker of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, born 1984, is said to be the youngest self-made billionaire
88. He is the 321^st richest person in the US
89. Zuckerberg lunched FaceBook in his dormitory room while still in Harvard
90. The online population of Facebook, 250 million users worldwide, and MySpace, which had 100 million accounts by 2007, are bigger than the populations of many nations worldwide
91. On April 2008, Facebook overtook MySpace in terms of monthly visits
92. It took the Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users. Radio took 38 years while TV made it in 13 years.
93. Amazon.com was formerly known as Cadabra.com
94. Bit torrents, depending on location, are estimated to consume 27 to 55 percent of all internet bandwidth as of February, 2009
95. Blogger Kyle MacDonald who through a series of trades over the Web, managed to get a house from a paper clip.
96. After the deed to the house was signed in MacDonald’s name, his girlfriend accepted his proposal and the engagement ring was made from the original red paperclip.
97. Mahir Cagri achieved internet fame by way of his endearing use of broken English in his website. The banner of his site reads “This is my page….. Welcome to my home page!!!!!! I kiss you!!!!!”
98. It was estimated that 1 of 8 married couples started by meeting online
99. An image search on Google for “241543903” will show heads in freezers
100. It is said that there are 5 porn pages for every single normal page
101. Typing “the” in Google search results in 11,360,000,000 hits. In October 2004, the number of hits was 5,890,000,000

Perez Hilton

No, this first picture has not been altered. Hollywood blogger sensation Perez Hilton really does have pink hair in this photo, and sadly, yes, the black eye is real too. Back in June, after the Toronto MuchMusic Video Awards, Black Eyed Peas manager Polo Molina reportedly punched Perez Hilton in the face. Perez obviously needs some makeover help, so we used these 25 Most Useful Photoshop Effects to take the attention away from his black eye. These effects are great for any photos needing an image makeover and as an added bonus we have added a link where you can find the tutorial on how to create these effects on your own.

Crack and Peel

http://photoshop-tutorials.deviantart.com/art/Crack-and-Peel-R-20607858

This effect can give you the impression that the picture is painted on rock wall somewhere and is slowly falling apart. This effect can make an image look old or fragile. It’s very striking and the tutorial can show you how it is done.

Changing Hair Color

http://www.cgshelf.com/changing_hair_color.php

This effect is so amazing that it may be hard to tell that anything has been changed. We thought Perez could use a little more color so our Photoshop hair stylist added some orange highlights.

Classical Portrait

http://www.bmcphotoart.com/portraittutorial.html

After softening the edges and dimming the light this photo could be a piece of artwork hanging on your wall. If you want to give your photo that classical feel check out the tutorial for an easy way to do it.

Collage of Polaroids

http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/polaroids/

This is a very cool effect that easily breaks a photo up into different parts and assembles them as a collage of Polaroids.  Check out the easy tutorial.

Color and Motion

http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/bourne-blur/

With this effect you can easily add color and motion to your photo. It works best for still shots of something that is already moving but as you can see it can add a cool effect to a portrait as well.  Tutorial here.

Coloring Effects

http://kailoon.com/photo-edit-coloring-effects/

There are many different coloring effects in Photoshop and the tutorial here will give you an understanding on how easy it can be.  In this case, we give Perez an excuse for getting into a scrape – see how sick he looks?

Darklight

http://www.photoshopassist.com/?p=68

With the Darklight effect in Photoshop you can smooth out the color and give your photo more intimate lighting. Tutorial here.

Dave Hill Look

http://www.diyphotography.net/creating-that-dave-hill-look

If you are a fan of Dave Hill’s amazing photos you can make your own with this Dave Hill Look effect, just for the step-by-step tutorial.

Dramatic Gritty Effect

http://photoshopfrenzy.com/?p=94

The Dramatic Gritty Effect really brings out the details and makes them raw and more alive. Check out the tutorial to give your pictures a Dave Hillier than Dave Hill effect.

Eery Eye Photo

http://www.photoshopstar.com/photo-effects/eery-eye-photo-manipulation/

When you see this photo you might think differently about Perez’s story. Just looking at that fire in his eyes it can be easy to assume that he may have caused the fight himself. Very useful for making a photo look guilty.  You can add your own eery eye effect with the help of the tutorial.

Face Painting on a Cracked Wall

http://www.celoxdesign.net/free-photoshop-tutorials/face-painting-on-cracked-wall/id/69

If you have always wanted your own fresco you can now be one step closer with the Face Painting on a Cracked Wall effect. This looks as if it came straight out of the Renaissance period.  Or from an ancient cave.  Become a caveman painter with this tutorial.

Fill a Photo with Photos

http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/photo-fill/

No it is not a bad case of acne, they are actually photos. If you look closely you will see that Perez has a bunch of faces on his face and in fact the whole picture is made up of tiny pictures. This is one very cool effect. This tutorial is for that the-whole-is-bigger-than-the-sum-of-its-parts look.

Filtering Out Colors

http://www.photographyforums.org/photoshop/323-filtering-out-colours.html

By far one of the greatest effects is the ability to filter out colors. Always wondered how it can be done? Well with this tutorial now you will know.

Ghosting Effect

http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/ghosting/

Want a spooky effect to your picture? Try this ghosting effect and see what you may look like in the afterlife.  You might never want to look at Perez Hilkton again after this tutorial.

Good and Evil

http://www.steelfrog.com/good-and-evil/

Does Perez really need the good and evil Photoshop work, when he blackens one side “manually”?  Maybe not, but you can use this effect to show your dark side to people.

Making Image Awesome

http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/tutorials/index.cfm?featureID=1709

http://www.celoxdesign.net/free-photoshop-tutorials/trippy-colors-photo-effect/id/63

Perez looks like he is enjoying himself at a crazy disco party. With this effect you can make any image look awesome!

Oil Painting

http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/oil-painting/

Want to give your favorite photo that oil painting look? Then try this Photoshop effect for a fast and easy way to create a unique piece of art online.  No painting lessons required.

Photo To Line Art

http://www.verlagmartinkoch.at/tutorials/combinelineart/index.html

With this Photoshop effect you can easily turn any photo into line art. Check out the tutorial for step-by-step instructions to learn how.  This effect is ideal when you want an image to appear hand-drawn.

Puzzle Pattern

http://www.heathrowe.com/puzzeltexture.aspx

All the pieces are starting to come together with this effect. Turn your photo into a jigsaw puzzle. This effect helps make an image look like it’s just a picture, with a bit of 3D effect thrown in.

Rain to a Photo

http://photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/rain/

It was a dark and stormy night… well even if it was a beautiful day this effect will allow you to add a little rain into your photos.  This effect is very useful to set a mood when Mother Nature was being uncooperatively sunny.

Retro Comic Effect

http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/Photoshop-blog/2007/09/13/give-your-photos-a-retro-comic-book-effect/

Want to be a comic book hero? Well the tutorial for this effect will make that happen. Cape and tights not included.  This tutorial is ideal when you want to tell a story with photos in a light-hearted way.

Stencil Art

http://www.melissaclifton.com/tutorial-stencila.html

Why pay money for the artist on the street corner to draw your picture when you can turn any photo into stencil art using this cool Photoshop effect.  This tutorial also can make the image look like it was taken from a newspaper.

Too Close to TV

http://www.photoshoplab.com/too-close-to-your-tv.html

To add a little technical surrealism try out this effect that resembles being to close to a retro television screen.

Watercolor Effects

http://kailoon.com/photo-edit-watercolor-effect/

http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/watercolor-painting/

With this effect you can turn your favourite picture in a watercolor painting in no time.

Water Reflection

http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/water-reflection/

This is a very powerful effect to add a water reflection to any picture and although it might not work as well with a portrait just think of what you can do with a landscape shot.  This effect can make an image appear more real, more three dimensional.