Total Trivia

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Emails...

# The first electronic mail was sent between two machines sometime in the Autumn of 1972 by Ray Tomlinson, chief engineer with Bolt Beranek & Newman Technologies and the content was probaly the single phrase "QWERTYUIOP" (the letters making up the top line of the standard keyboard).

# The separation of the name of the user from the name of the machine on which the user is working by the @ sign in all e-mail addresses was the idea of Ray Tomlinson sometime in 1972.

# The earliest known use of the @ sign - technically known as the amphora - was in a letter written by a Florentine merchant on 4 May 1536 when the sign represented a measure of capacity based on the terracotta jars used to transport grain and liquid in the ancient Mediterranean world.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Spam...

# The first instance of 'spam' (unsolicited e-mail) is believed to have been an announcement of a product presentation sent on 3 May 1978 by a Digital Equipment Corporation salesman to several hundred scientists and reseachers on the ARPAnet.

# The first instance of the use of the word 'spam' to label such unsolicited e-mail occurred on 31 March 1993 when Usenet administrator Richard Depew inadvertently posted the same message 200 times to a discussion group and, adopting a term previously used in online text games, outraged Usenet users branded the excessive message posting 'spam'.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

And finally...

# The idea of using "emoticons" - symbols that indicate certain emotions - in e-mail was made by Kevin MacKenzie in 1979.

# The 1996 novel "E-Mail" by Stephanie D Fletcher consists entirely of e-mail communications between users of a fictional LuxNet Adult Topics Bulletin Board.

# In 1996, for the first time, more messages were carried in America by e-mail than by the US Postal Service.

# In the two weeks after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in August 1997, 580,000 e-mail messages of sympathy - compared to 500,000 letters - were received by Buckingham Palace.

# By the end of 2003, the number of e-mails being carried by the Internet was 31 billion a day.

 

[Sienna]

TOP POSTERS ON THIS THREAD...

Gaia_Lorraine... 327
fire_breeze... 291
CCaprice... 195
smotherman... 77
luv1... 54
Sienna... 45
ParrishP... 37
_Misty_ ... 36
Daizie... 26
MSH2 & desideratum... 24
desideratum 24
koalabear & tuckislooking... 22
mrtnmoon... 21
steelersfan... 14
Little Lady69... 12
Stryderthorongil... 10

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

TOP POSTERS ON THIS THREAD...

Gaia_Lorraine... 327
fire_breeze... 291
CCaprice... 195
smotherman... 77
luv1... 54
Sienna... 45
ParrishP... 37
_Misty_ ... 36
Daizie... 26
MSH2 & desideratum... 24
desideratum 24
koalabear & tuckislooking... 22
mrtnmoon... 21
steelersfan... 14
Little Lady69... 12
Stryderthorongil... 10

The thread is interesting and at times thought provoking, above all it stimulates a desire to learn. Thank you to everyone who has contributed, long may we share

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Well I never knew that...

Britain is the only country which does not place its name on its stamps because it invented the postage stamp

 

[BoomerP]

TOP POSTERS ON THIS THREAD...

Gaia_Lorraine... 327
fire_breeze... 291
CCaprice... 195
smotherman... 77
luv1... 54
Sienna... 45
ParrishP... 37
_Misty_ ... 36
Daizie... 26
MSH2 & desideratum... 24
desideratum 24
koalabear & tuckislooking... 22
mrtnmoon... 21
steelersfan... 14
Little Lady69... 12
Stryderthorongil... 10

Wow how did you figure out that?

 

[BoomerP]

And finally...

# The idea of using "emoticons" - symbols that indicate certain emotions - in e-mail was made by Kevin MacKenzie in 1979.

# The 1996 novel "E-Mail" by Stephanie D Fletcher consists entirely of e-mail communications between users of a fictional LuxNet Adult Topics Bulletin Board.

# In 1996, for the first time, more messages were carried in America by e-mail than by the US Postal Service.

# In the two weeks after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in August 1997, 580,000 e-mail messages of sympathy - compared to 500,000 letters - were received by Buckingham Palace.

# By the end of 2003, the number of e-mails being carried by the Internet was 31 billion a day.

Wow and they say 80% of all emails sendt is spam.

You could feed a country with that amount of spam!

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Wow how did you figure out that?

From your User Control Panel the list of numbers in the "Replies" column for your membership threads are underlined. Click on that number and it will reveal the total posts for that thread for each user.

 

[smotherman]

Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender's system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.

 

[smotherman]

TOP POSTERS ON THIS THREAD...

Gaia_Lorraine... 327
fire_breeze... 291
CCaprice... 195
smotherman... 77
luv1... 54
Sienna... 45
ParrishP... 37
_Misty_ ... 36
Daizie... 26
MSH2 & desideratum... 24
desideratum 24
koalabear & tuckislooking... 22
mrtnmoon... 21
steelersfan... 14
Little Lady69... 12
Stryderthorongil... 10

Well, I'm slowly closing in on the top three!

 

[smotherman]

SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Well, I'm slowly closing in on the top three!

You could easily do it, CCaprice has stopped posting

 

[Daizie]

Queen Victoria eased the discomfort of her menstrual cramps by having her doctor supply her with marijuana.


Wonder if my doctor would hook me up.

 

[smotherman]

You could easily do it, CCaprice has stopped posting

Thanks for letting me know! how about fire_breeze?

 

[smotherman]

Seven out of every ten hockey-playing Canadians will lose a tooth during a game. For Canadians who don't play hockey, that figure drops to five out of ten.

 

[Daizie]

In high school, Robin Williams was voted "Least Likely to Succeed."

 

[fire_breeze]

TOP POSTERS ON THIS THREAD...

Gaia_Lorraine... 327
fire_breeze... 291
CCaprice... 195
smotherman... 77
luv1... 54
Sienna... 45
ParrishP... 37
_Misty_ ... 36
Daizie... 26
MSH2 & desideratum... 24
desideratum 24
koalabear & tuckislooking... 22
mrtnmoon... 21
steelersfan... 14
Little Lady69... 12
Stryderthorongil... 10

Wow... Well, it is an interesting and thought-provoking (and funny) thread!

And I'm immortalised again... or is that immoralised?

 

[fire_breeze]

Thanks for letting me know! how about fire_breeze?

She's still posting!

 

[fire_breeze]

It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write "War & Peace".

It sometimes feels that long to read it...

 

[CCaprice]

You could easily do it, CCaprice has stopped posting

Is that a challenge? I've been out of town

 

[CCaprice]

It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write "War & Peace".

It sometimes feels that long to read it...

LOL I've never read it!!

 

[CCaprice]

Whole milk contains less water than celery!

The water contents of some foods:

whole milk 87.2%
fresh carrots 88.2%
fresh tomatoes 93.5%
fresh celery 94.1%

While we often associate fluidity or pourability with high water content, milk is an example of a liquid food in that contains less water than many solid products. This is because the water in fruits and vegetables is held within cell walls which are kept rigid by turgor pressure. In gels, gelatin desserts for example, water is entrapped within a three-dimensional matrix of man-made "cells" formed by crosslinking of the protein. Similar structures are formed by some complex carbohydrates (polysaccharides) termed hydrocolloids or gums.

 

[fire_breeze]

LOL I've never read it!!

It's not all that bad... but it takes time.

 

[CCaprice]

The first patent for margarine was granted in 1869 to a French chemist.

Instant potato flakes were developed by scientists at Agriculture Canada.