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Did you know... - 2008 - What's new for next year from MSO.net's Net.Matters

It took radio 38 years to reach 50 million listeners; it took television 13 years to reach the same number of viewers and only 5 years for the internet to do likewise.

There are 100 million internet users in China.  The sites they can't access include BBC News, Amnesty International and Dalailama.com.
The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
The individual who owns the most domain names is Dr. Lieven P. Van Nestle - he currently owns over 200,000!
An amazing 70 per cent of US businesses do not have a website.
For every conventional web page, there are 5 porn pages.
We spend more time on eBay than any other internet site.
Wikipedia attracts 2,000 page requests every second.
Google's motto is "don't be evil..."
One out of every eight couples married in the US, met online.



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