March 18, 2008

Amazing facts

  • It took 13 years for television to reach 50 million users while it took the Internet less than 4 years.
  • The US Navy run the second largest computer network on earth, second only to the internet.
  • Ringtones now account for 10 percent of the worlds music market generating about $3billion
  • The first product to have bar code was Wrigley's gum
  • Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes
  • The first McDonald's restaurant was opened for business in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1952.
  • Did you know that the original URL of Yahoo! was http://akebono.stanford.edu/?

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