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« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2014, 02:27:09 AM »

7. Country With Fastest Internet: South Korea



This country really is wired. By 2006, 96% of South Korean cellphone users had Internet access and today's users connect at a blazing fast 17.5 Mbps. In a distant second place is Japan with 9.1, tied with Hong Kong; the Netherlands and Latvia are each a notch below that. Where is the United States? A distant 13th place with 5.8 Mbps. The fastest US City is Boston with 8.4 Mbps. How is the Internet doing as a whole? A mere 2.3 Mbps on average worldwide, a drop of 14 percent from 2011 – DAMN YOU WILL AND KATE!!!

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« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2014, 02:27:30 AM »

8. Most Expensive Domain Name: Insure.com



If you think Sex sells, think again. It's INSURANCE that's the big cash-grabber. In 2006, it earned the top spot by commanding $16 million dollars, topping Sex.com's $14 million sale in Oct. 2010.
Fund.com and Porn.com are next in line, no-brainers of course. But the luckiest in the bunch? The Farm Bureau, who sold FB.com to Facebook for $8.5 million.
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« Reply #8 on: October 17, 2014, 02:27:36 AM »

9. Most Facebook “Likes” in 24 Hours: Oreo or Lil' Wayne?



It started out as a silly promotional gimmick for a cookie. In February 2011, Oreo announced a campaign to win the Guinness Record for the most number of Likes in a 24-hour period.
And on Feb. 16, the black-and-white snack did indeed receive the award when it clocked 114,619 Likes on a single post within that time frame. But who should come along and attempt to rain on Oreo's parade? Rapper Lil' Wayne heard about the record and immediately summoned his posse to break it. One day later, Oreo's record was destroyed with 588,243 on Lil' Wayne's status. This made news around the globe, but has apparently fallen on deaf ears at Guinness. To this date, they claim the Oreo takes the prize but state, “All categories are open to the public and anyone who wishes to attempt their own record can do so simply by registering at www.guinnessworldrecords.com/apply.”
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« Reply #9 on: October 17, 2014, 02:27:45 AM »

10. The Godfathers of Spam: Gary Thuerk, Joel Furr and Ken Daignean



Everything has a first on the Internet, and Spam – those annoying, unwanted emails filling more than 90% of your inbox – is no exception. On May 3, 1978 a marketer at Digital Equipment Corporation named Gary Thuerk thought of a brilliant way to get the word out about their new computer systems. He sent a mass email to 400 accounts on ARPANET and voila, Spam was born. But Spam wasn't called Spam yet – THAT honor goes to Joel Furr, who first coined the phrase in a Usenet posting around 1993. The use of the word Spam brilliantly refers to both the ham-based-processed-meat-in-a-can (named by Ken Daignean who won a $100 contest in 1937), and to a skit by the British Comedy Troupe Monty Python, where Vikings appear from nowhere and chant “Spam Spam Wonderful Spam!” drowning out everyone else in the scene.
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