Top 10 internet facts

Through Monty Python sketch. Spam (shortened from spiced ham) is a canned precooked meat product made and trademarked by the Hormel Foods Corporation, first introduced in 1937. It got popular in the UK during WW2. The name has been given to electronic spam through a Monty Python sketch, in which Spam was portrayed as ubiquitous and inescapable.

Googol. The name of the Google search engine was created by mistake of its creator, L. Page, who meant googol.

Country of Tuvalu. The domain name is popular, and thus economically valuable, because it is an abbreviation of the word television. The domain is managed by VeriSign company, which signed the contract with the Government of Tuvalu.

CERN laboratory in Switzerland. A group of computer scientists at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) proposed in 1990 to use hypertext "to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will", and they publicly introduced the project in December of the same year.

Google Home speakers enable users to speak voice commands to interact with services through Google's personal assistant software called Google Assistant. A large number of services, both in-house and third-party, are integrated, allowing users to listen to music, control playback of videos or photos, or receive news updates entirely by voice. The first device was announced in May 2016.

Jimmy Wales. Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (1966) is an American Internet entrepreneur. He is known as a co-founder of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and the for-profit web hosting company Wikia

In Geneva. The first web server was located on the very own Tim's Berners-Lee NeXT workstation. While working for CERN in Geneva, Tim invented both first version of HTTP protocol and HTML language. The first web server outside Europe was launched on the 12th of Dec 1991 at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), California.

Internal server error. The 500 Internal Server Error is a very general HTTP status code that means something has gone wrong on the website's server, but the server could not be more specific on what the exact problem is.

From Latin. The sign comes from a Latin ligature replacing in the medieval and Renaissance commercial manuscripts the word "at" - and denoting the recipient of the parcel.He first appeared in 1448 in a document with a register of wheat deliveries from the Kingdom of Castile to the Kingdom of Aragón.

Arpanet. The ARPANET project led to the development of protocols for internetworking, by which multiple separate networks could be joined into a single network of networks. ARPANET development began with two network nodes, which were interconnected between the Network Measurement Center at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1969