Internet from the Guinness Book of Records

The most interactive TV program
In the TV show "Big Brother" (broadcast in Holland in 1999), nine participants were settled in a house equipped with web cameras and microphones. Over 4.7 million viewers watched their lives for more than a hundred days. And the website has received over 52 million fans of the program (www.cbs.com/primetime/bigbrother2).

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The biggest golf tournament on the web
More than 11 thousand people signed in 1999 for the interactive championship on golf Jack Niddaus Online Golf Championship (www.golfweb.com). Chet Stone, a player from New York, became the best network golfer. He won after he won 36 holes online in the digital version of the famous golf course Pelican Hill in California.

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The largest number of questions
Most questions were asked on May 17, 1997 by Sir Paul McCartney. Neither much nor little, but 3 million, and all this for 30 minutes during the promotion of web promotion of his next album.

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The most multilingual radio show on the Internet
In December 1997, the opening and closing ceremonies of the Kyoto conference on climate change were broadcast on the Internet simultaneously in English, French, Japanese, Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Arabic.

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The largest number of wards
"Cyberangels" - a branch from the organization "Guardian Angels" (Guardian Angels) - have already figured out more than two hundred cases of cyberpunition. The goal of the cyber-gangs hired by UNESCO is to protect 17 million children under the age of 18 who regularly attend the Internet.

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The most economical company
The American company Federal Express (www.fedex.com) stated that over the year the use of the Web has saved 2 million paper pages, thanks to the introduction of an online system Sending and tracking.

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The youngest country internet code
Palestine is fighting for international recognition as an independent state. This country has already achieved real independence in cyberspace. This happened on March 22, 2000: Internet Corp. For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which registered the network address, assigned to Palestine the suffix "ps".

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The most-most gourmets - users of the Internet
The love of Indian cuisine helped a young Englishwoman Rachel Kerr get into the Guinness Book of Records. Faced with the fate of fate in distant Australia, the young woman with anguish recalled her favorite dishes from an Indian restaurant located in the south of England. This longing was so great that Rachel decided to take extreme measures. After sitting down at the computer, she found on the Internet a site of a cherished restaurant and ordered food in her house. The most surprising thing is that the order was actually executed. Four days later, having overcome 17 and a half thousand kilometers, a messenger from distant England handed Rachel her favorite dish.

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The world's largest internet cafe - in New York
New York has opened the world's largest Internet café. In the area of ​​several square kilometers 800 computers are installed. For $1 a visitor gets 5 hours of Internet access. This is relatively cheap even by American standards, especially if you take into account the quality of communication. And regular visitors will be able to count on big discounts. Owners of Internet cafes expect that their establishment will be visited daily by up to 8 thousand people.

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Most condolences
580 thousand condolences were left by users on the official website of the British royal family (www.royal.gov.uk) in September 1997 after The death of Princess Diana.

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The youngest billionaire
Jerry Yang, one of the founders of the search engine Yahoo! and co-owner of Yahoo! Inc., became a billionaire in 1998, when he turned 29 Year. Now his capital is estimated at 4 billion dollars.

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The most common virus
They became the virus "I Love You", May 1, 2000 year, struck 3 million 100 thousand computers (according to Trend Micro Inc.) and eclipsed "Melissa."

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The most popular robot
The most popular bestseller among electronic toys was a puppy AIBO (translated from Japanese - "buddy", as well as an acronym for "robot with artificial intelligence"). Appearing for the first time on sale on May 31, 1999 to the Sony site, all 3000 pieces were sold out within 20 minutes at a price exceeding $2000. And on June 1, when an electronic friend appeared on the American market, the excitement around the new toy disabled the online store server.

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The biggest transaction in e-commerce
Through the Internet you can buy a couple of books or order a tour, a couple of clicks can get you very far. But compared to the purchases of business tycoon Mark Cuban, all this is just a small thing. After all, he spent $40 million to purchase a luxury Gulfstream V jet for personal use. This is the second jet aircraft sold by Gulfstream through a website ( www.gulfstream.com). And buying Cuban is the biggest one-time transaction on the Internet.

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The most expensive domain name
Mark Ostrovsky bought the domain name business.com for 150 thousand dollars, and managed to sell for 7.5 million. Such money was laid out by the large American company ECompanies. In the ECompanies manual, which plans to implement business-to-business schemes, they are sure that the domain business.com most accurately reflects the essence of their company's business.
We note in brackets that Mark Ostrovsky in February has already sold another domain, eflowers.com, the company Flowers Direct for 38 790 dollars plus 78 cents With each carried out to the site of purchase.

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The most visited website
Site www.france98.com, devoted to the World Cup football tournament, which took place in France in 1998, withstood 450 million hits. At the opening of the tournament (June 10, 1998), approximately 10 million people from 170 countries visited www.france98.com. The peak of popularity was registered at the level of 59 million hits (!!!).

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The largest internet cafe?
Internet-cafe "Easi Evryasing" with 648 computer terminals opened on November 28, 2000 in Times Square in New York (USA).

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The largest search engine?
The Google (Google) system, with more than 3 billion pages, has the largest continuously updated index of web pages. The company was organized by Larry Page and Sergey Brin (both USA) in September 1998. Their first office was a garage in Manlo Park (California, USA), and the staff consisted of only 4 people.

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The most popular domain?
According to the company "No Nimes Ltd.", for March 2001 AD The most popular domain of the country was .uk (United Kingdom), which registered more than 2 million users. For Great Britain follows Germany (.de). Although most Internet sites are in America, few of which have a .us domain.

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The first computer virus?
The first computer program reproducing itself, on November 11, 1983, was shown by Fred Cohen, a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA).

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The largest wireless Internet provider?
"NTT DoCoMo" (Japan) is the world's largest wireless Internet provider. In February 2003, this service had 36,931,000 subscribers.

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First email?
In 1971, Ray Tomlinson (USA), the engineer of the computer company Bolt, Beranek and Newman (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA), sent the first-ever electronic message. It was Ray who first suggested separating the recipient's name from his address by the @ symbol.

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Counrty Internet users?
In December 2002, in USA, there were 160 million Internet users out of a global total of 665 million.

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The largest percentage of Internet users?
According to the "Almanac of the computer industry" for 2001, in Sweden, 554.18 people have access to the network for every 1000 people of the population. In the second place Iceland - 552.04 users per 1000 people. USA occupy the 6th place - 522.1 users per 1000 people.

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The biggest free email?
In September 2002, the system "Hothail" company "Microsoft" enjoyed 110 million people.

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The largest penalty for an offense on the Internet?
The American opponents of abortion created the site "Nuremberg files" and placed on it posters "wanted" with the names and addresses of doctors performing abortions. On February 3, 1999, the owners of the site were forced to pay $107.7 million USA in the form of compensation for damages.