Have you ever thought who invented this little tool that helps us to “talk” to the computer? Let’s find it out. The history of the  computer mouse starts at the  Stanford Research Institute in the United States. The first computer mouse was invented and designed by a man named Douglas Engelbartas, one of the memebers of the Stanford Research Institute. It was demonstrated by him... 

Everybody knows it and uses it almost everyday. But how did Google got its name? Google derived its name from the word “googol”, a term coined by then nine-year-old Milton Sirotta, nephew of the American mathematician Edward Kasner. The story goes, Kasner had asked his nephew to invent a name for a very large number – ten to the power of one hundred (the numeral one followed by 100... 

No one knows exactly how many people use the Internet because it is impossible to take a census of its users. But some people tried to count. According to the Internet World Stats that collects its data from Nielson/NetRatings and the International Telecommunications Union as of September 18, 2006 there are 1,086,250,903 people on the Internet world-wide and   229,138,706 people in the United States... 

The DNS was created in 1984 and in 1985 top level domains were defined. The first top level domains were COM, ORG, EDU, GOV, MIL and ccTLD. In April 1985 cmu.edu, purdue.edu, rice.edu and ucla.edu were the first registered domain names. The first .gov was css.gov and was registered in June 1985. The first .org was mitre.org and was registered in July 1985. Now for the first .com which was registered... 

Much like the first telegraph or phone call, the first email marked an historic moment in the evolution of communication. Unfortunately, the message itself was less than earth shattering. The text of that first electronic message consisted of “something like QWERTYUIOP.” Sent by computer engineer Ray Tomlinson in 1971, the email was simply a test message to himself. The email was sent from...