The four ghosts in Pac-Man are programmed to act differently: red chases you, pink just tries to position itself in a set way, blue tries to ambush you and orange is random.
21
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.
12
In 1999, Pokémon was the second most searched topic on the internet. The first was pornography.
23
While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.
704
A bag of marijuana was the first thing ever bought and sold over the internet.
22
The world's first computer, called the Z1, was invented by Konrad Zuse in 1936. His next invention, the Z2 was finished in 1939 and was the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer.
148
Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.
86
Computer programming is currently one of the fastest growing occupations.
150