January 27th, 2006
Fact Friday: Amazing Tech Facts
By Alice Hill
RealTechNews
I love facts if they make me feel smarter and today we are hitting the motherlode! Here’s a blog devoted to nothing else: amazing tech facts. There must be hundreds on the site. Here are a few I found interesting:
–Did you know that the original URL of Yahoo! was http://akebono.stanford.edu/?
–Boeing was the first airline to discover the Y2K problem, way back in 1993.
–Did you know that Domain registration was free until an announcement by the NAtional Science Foundation on 14th September, 1995, changed it.
–The search engine “Lycos” is named for Lycosidae, the Latin name for the wolf spider family.
–According to The Economist magazine, the first truly electronic bank on the Internet, called First Virtual Holdings, was opened by Lee Stein in 1994.
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Source: TechFacts via Digg
Jim Frost says:
Boeing was not the first to discover Y2K issues, and your date as to its discovery is off by at least twenty years. Many accountants had been dealing with it since the 1970s due to the 35-year depreciation schedules for structures. When I started working for an accounting firm in 1983 I was told they had, years previously, expanded all the fields in their databases to four digits to work around exactly this problem.
January 27th, 2006 at 11:00 pm
Perros says:
Boeing isn’t actually an airline either, it’s an aerospace engineering company.
(Yeah i know it’s nitpicking
)
-Perros-
January 28th, 2006 at 1:03 am
mordin says:
It doesn’t say Boeing was the 1st to discover the Y2K bug but the 1st airline to discover it. Although how can you discover something that is already known?
January 28th, 2006 at 8:49 pm