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If we consider internet world records, they have very short life span, sometimes not more than one day. In the fast changing world of internet, tend to be fleeting, where you may be toast of world wide web one second, but will be forgotten the next second. With the internet being around for more than 15 years, there are plenty of world records on these networks.
Longest domain name
There are quite a few silly domain names, which are incredibly long. Technically, there can be up legally to 63 characters in a domain name, excluding sub domains or suffixes. There are a lot of fun domain names that one comes across, such as- http://www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com/
Then there is this funny name – http://www.thelongestdomainnameintheworldandthensomeandthensomemoreandmore.com
In Guinness book of world records, the longest domain name is of a town in Wales, and that is http://www.lanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com
Highest Webcam on Earth
The Italian Scientific Committee has placed a web camera at an altitude of 5643 meters, atop a peak, overlooking the Mt. Everest. Thus, it becomes the highest placed camera on Earth. Now one can keep an eye on even the activities of mountaineers and Sherpa’s, though for a large time nothing but clouds can be viewed. So much for privacy!
Most watched video on You Tube: Psy, ‘Gangnum Style’
With 1,552,071,214 views, South Korean pop singer Psy became a sensation. The video reached 100 million viewers in 51 days, but has not yet stopped climbing the record heights. With his peculiar traditional Korean steps, and lyrics in Korean with few words of English thrown in, this video has had a dream run, spawning countless spin-off videos. It inspired a number of Hollywood actors and pop stars to learn his steps.
Highest number of Twitter followers: Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber has 39, 127,448 followers on Twitter, the online social networking site on May 15th 2013, replacing lady Gaga who was leading sometime back. Lady Gaga is in the second position with 37, 272, 178 followers, and next is Katy Perry with 36,525,544 followers. There are rumors that almost half of the followers of Bieber are fake, and therefore few sites consider Lady Gaga to be in top position, though she too has her share of fake followers, though less than that of Bieber.
Oldest site on Internet: Symbolics.com
Symbolics Computer Corporation is considered to be the first company to register domain name on 15th March 1985. After that, four more websites were registered that year. Those were the early days in internet history. Now there are more than 192 million domains registered, with more than 2.1 billion users worldwide. The design of the site was never changed after 1985, and was bought in 2009, but it still chugs along.
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