Most Questions Asked Online
On May 17, 1997, Sir Paul McCartney received over 3 million questions from fans in 30 minutes, during a web event to promote his album Flaming Pie.
Largest Domain Ownership
According to NetNames Ltd., as of April 2000, the USA has over 11 million domains of the 15,719,462 that exist worldwide.
Smallest Web Server
The web page of the Wearables Laboratory at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA, is supported by Jumptec's DIMM-PC, a server only slightly higher and wider than a box of matches and only one-third of the thickness. By January 1999 the site was averaging 40 hits a minute.
Hotmail
MSN Hotmail is the world's largest free web-based e-mail service provider, with more than 110 million active subscribers as of January 2003. The Hotmail user base has grown more than 10 times since January 1998 - more than the world population has grown in the last fifty years - and on most days, the number of new people signing up for an account is greater than the number of babies born into the world!
An average of 40 million Hotmail emails are sent each day, and MSN have estimated that their service saves 500 trees - that's about 72,720 kg - of paper per day.
Google
Google, with around 4.2 billion pages, has the largest continually-refreshed index of webpages of all the world's search engines. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Their first office was a garage in Menlo Park, California, USA, which opened in September 1998 with a staff of four people.
Most Expensive Internet Domain Name
The Internet domain name business.com was sold by Texan entrepreneur Marc Ostrofsky on Dec 1 1999 for Β£4.6 million ($7.5 million).
Marc, a 38-year-old Houston media entrepreneur, bought the domain name from a London Internet service provider for $150,000 in 1996, the same year his children's nanny won $21 million in the Texas lottery. Ostrofsky is not only a savvy businessman but also a very thoughtful husband. When he sold the domain name
www.eflowers.com for $25,000 - and 50 cents on every transaction at that site - he made eFlowers promise to send his wife a dozen roses each month for the rest of her life!
FIVE MOST EXPENSIVE DOMAIN NAMES
Business.com - $7.5 million
AsSeenOnTv.com - $5.1 million
Altavista.com - $3.3 million
Wine.com - $2.9 million
Autos.com - $2.2 million
Largest Single E-commerce Transaction
If you're feeling flush you might end up buying a few CD's over the net. Or possibly a holiday - a couple of clicks can get you anywhere in the world. Business tycoon Mark Cuban, however, made these regular web transactions look like small change when he spent $40 million on his own luxury Gulfstream V jet. The jet was the second sold by the Gulfstream company over their website. Cuban's purchase is the largest ever single internet transaction.
Largest Internet Joke Vote
LaughLab, an Internet experiment into humor, was conducted by psychologist Richard Wiseman, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK, and the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Running from September 2001 to October 2002, the project collected over 40,000 jokes submitted from the worldwide public, and around 2 million votes were cast on what was the funniest.
Source -
www.guinnessworldrecords.com
