25 Internet Facts
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09/08/2014
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After the Haiti earthquake, the Feed The Children website claimed that the charity was providing medical relief for 12,000 people. In reality, they sent a total of three doctors, and two weeks after the earthquake it emerged that they had fed zero people. -
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Yelp.com uses extortionist tactics to coerce business owners into paying a monthly fee in order to remove negative reviews and to keep positive ones un-filtered. -
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Microsoft once threatened to sue a high school student named Mike Rowe for creating a website called MikeRoweSoft.com. -
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You are three times more likely to get a virus from a church website than you are to get from a pornographic website. -
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Www.whitehouse.com used to be a porn website, resulting in many schoolchildren in the late 1990s being accidentally exposed to adult content via the website. -
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Madonna uploaded an album of her to p2p sites with all of the songs in the loop of her saying what the fk you think youre doing? and in retort a hacker defaced her website with direct links to the album saying This is the fk i think im doing. -
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Sony once sued itself. RIAApartially controlled by Sony Music sued Launch.comowned by Sonys Tech Business unit, meaning that the Music Dept. somehow sued its Tech Dept. -
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NBC was forced to buy hornymanatee.com after Conan OBrien mentioned the domain name on his show. -
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The website hampsterdance.com was created in 1998 as a result of a competition between two Canadian sisters to see who could generate the most traffic and is one of the earliest examples of an internet meme. -
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In 1999, the founders of Google actually tried to sell their website to Excite for 1 million. Excite turned them down. -
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Stargate was the first film to have an official dedicated website, in 1994. -
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elgoog.comgoogle backwards has a huge following in China because elgooG search terms are printed in reverse, so users are able to perform Google searches without detection by the Chinese governments search filters. -
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There is a website that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie in a theater, so you dont miss anything too important. -
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McDonalds didnt register McDonalds.com and had to donate to a school to get the domain from the Wired magazine writer, who had registered it in 1994. -
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MartinLutherKing.org is actually a website designed by a brutal, xenophobic, racist group called StormFront US-based to discredit King. -
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The government of Free State, South Africa spent 4 million on their website with a 40 WordPress theme. -
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In 2005, a student in England made a 1 million pixel webpage and put up the space for sale at 1 per pixel. He did this in order to pay for college and he was successful, selling out in less than 6 months. -
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Tinder, OKCupid and Match.com are owned by the same company, InterActiveCorp, who also own CollegeHumor, Vimeo, and 50 other internet websites. -
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Ashley Madison, a dating website for married people who want to cheat on their spouses, was sued for 21 million by a former employee, who says she damaged her wrists while typing up hundreds of fake profiles of sexy women. -
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The Offspring wanted to release their album Conspiracy Of One 2000 from their website as a free download stating that peer-to-peer downloads dont hurt sales until their label threatened to sue. -
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The founder of match.com, Gary Kremen, lost his girlfriend to a man she met on match.com -
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IMDb is one of the oldest websites on the internet, and began on Usenet in 1990 as a list of actresses with beautiful eyes. -
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In 2001, Neopets was the fourth most trafficked website on the internet, 8 spots in front of Google. -
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In 2012, a hacker group named UGNazi took down the Papa Johns website because the company took 2 hours longer than expected to deliver my food. -
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The creators of Breaking Bad made a real savewalterwhite.com, and it has raised over 125,000 for The National Cancer Coalition.
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