In 1956, the IBM 350 hard disk drive had 3.75 MB of storage, weighed over 2000 lbs, had to be moved around with forklifts, and was delivered via large cargo airplanes.
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By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.
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E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
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The longest-running legal battle for a domain name is believed to be the fight for PETA.org. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sued People Eating Tasty Animals to obtain the name – the case spanned from 1995 to 2001.
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One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.
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MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.
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