Did you know that Google was originally named as 'Googol' which means - a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by hundred zeros.

There are many interesting and fascinating facts about internet and its history, so this weekend we decided to compile some of them for you:

1. Internet was originally known as 'ARPAnet' (Advance Research Projects Agency Network). It began with the US Department of Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency in 1969.

2. In 1982, "Times" magazine gave its "Man of The Year" award to a machine - The Computer.

3. In October 1991, Linus Torvalds - a young student at University of Helsinki released his first prototype Linux Software.

4. The first electronic mail was sent between two machines sometime in the Autumn of 1972 by Ray Tomlinson, chief engineer with Bolt Beranek & Newman Technologies and the content was probably the single phrase "QWERTYUIOP" (the letters making up the top line of the standard keyboard).

5. "Yahoo" was a person in Jonathan Swift's book Gulliver's travel, who was ugly and not a human in appearance. He was the inspiration behind the brand name: Yahoo!

6. www.symbolics.com was the the first ever domain registered in 1985.

7. Amazon.com was formerly known as Cadabra.com, they had to change the name due to copyright issues.

8. Obama leveraged online social networks to raise $55 million funds for elections.

9. The first ever search engine was called 'Archie', it was created in 1990 by a canadian student named Alan Emtage.

10. It took 38 years for radio to reach 50 million users, 13 years for TV, and only 5 years for the Internet.

These facts are gathered from:

http://www.rogerdarlington.me.uk/FFF.html
http://www.knowledgebase-script.com/