Top 10 Internet Myths - Things that you should know if you are a geek

By Abhishek Shukla

Let me tell you some facts that you should know if you like computers…Not sure if all of them would come like a surprise to you but i guarantee that some of them will…

So, here it goes. Ten myths and there truths.

- **The internet was a military network designed to survive a nuclear attack -** The precursor to the internet (APRANET) was funded by a branch of the US defence department. Howerver, its **purpose was communication between universities and not war**.

- **Al Gore invented the internet -** US Congressman, **Al Gore promoted the concept of "comms"** as something that could be good for both ecommerce and education in the 1970s.

- **Al Gore said he invented the internet  -** What actually Al Gore said was -** "During my service in the United States Congress, i took the initiative in creating the internet"**

- **Packet Switching was invented by US -** Actually an Englishmen called Donald Davies who was working at the National Physics Laboratory was also developing a **packet switched network concept in the year 1965**

- **The first ever email said "QWERTYUIOP" -** The first email was sent between teo PDP-10 computers in 1971 by BBN network engineer Ray Tomlinson. It comprised the equally boring **"Testing 1-2-3"**

- **Ray Tomlinson sent first email -** The MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology ) launched the mailbox system in 1965. It let users drop messages in the directories of the users of the same mainframe computer.

- **Google Started Internet Search -** The internet search tool was **created way back in 1990** by compterscience students at McGrill university in Montreal.

- **Netscape Navigator was the first web browser -** The** text - only linux browser was first off the mark in 1992**, followed by NCSA Mosaic in 1993 and finally netscape navigator in 1994.

- **The 404 error message is after a vacant room at CERN -** Actually you will be surprised to know that there is** no room number 404 at CERN labs in Switzerland**. The 4xx class of error messages relates to problems where the client is thought to have gone wrong and the reminder is just a serial number.

- **Social Networking is new -** One of the first Social Netwroking site was **The Well**, a virtual community that **started in 1985**.

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