Pingdom.com has your answers.
How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many Internet users were there? This post will answer all of those questions and many more. Prepare for information overload, but in a good way. 
We have used a wide variety of sources from around the Web. A full list of source references is available at the bottom of the post for those interested. We here at Pingdom also did some additional calculations to get even more numbers to show you.
A Few of the headlines are:
90 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009.
47 million – Added websites in 2009.
35.0% – The growth of Google GFE websites in 2009.
187 million – The number of domain names across all top-level
domains (October 2009).
1.73 billion – Internet users worldwide (September 2009).
126 million – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse).
2.5 billion – Photos uploaded each month to Facebook.
1 billion – The total number of videos YouTube serves in one day.
921,143 – The number of new malicious code signatures added by Symantec in Q4 2009.
Read the rest here.
http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/01/22/internet-2009-in-numbers/
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After experiencing difficulties with his computer, a poor, incognizant user called the system maker’s technical support line for assistance…
Technician: Hello. How can I help you today?
Customer: There’s smoke coming from the power supply on my computer…
Technician: Looks like you need a new power supply…
Customer: No, I don’t! I just need to change the startup files…
Technician: Sir, what you described is a faulty power supply. You need to replace it…
Customer: No way! Someone told me that I just had to change the system startup files to fix the problem! All I need is for you to tell me the right command…
For the next ten minutes, in spite of the technician’s efforts to explain the problem and its solution, the customer adamantly insisted that he was right. So, in frustration, the technician responded…
Technician: I’m sorry. We don’t normally tell our customers this, but there’s an undocumented DOS command that will fix the problem…
Customer: I knew it!
Technician: Just add the line ‘LOAD NOSMOKE.COM’ at the end of the CONFIG.SYS file and everything should work fine. Let me know how it goes…
About ten minutes later, the technician received a call back from the customer…
Customer: It didn’t work. The power supply is still smoking…
Technician: Well, what version of DOS are you using?
Customer: MS-DOS 6.22… Technician: Well, that’s your problem. That version of DOS doesn’t include NOSMOKE. You’ll need to contact Microsoft and ask them for a patch. Let me know how it all works out…
When nearly an hour had passed, the phone rang again…
Customer: I need a new power supply…
Technician: How did you come to that conclusion?
Customer: Well, I called Microsoft and told the technician what you said, and he started asking me questions about the make of the power supply…
Technician: What did he tell you?
Customer: He said my power supply isn’t compatible with NOSMOKE…
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Side by side view of 1 GB 20 years ago and 1 GB today.

Everybody pushes the airplane until it glides, then jumps on and lets the plane coast until it hits the ground again, then push again, jump on again and so on.
The same thing but with more leg room to push.
All the stewards, stewardesses, captains, baggage handlers and ticket agents look the same, act the same and talk the same. Every time you ask questions about details, you are told you don’t need to know, don’t want to know, and everything will be done for you without you having to know, so just shut up.
To board the plane, you have your ticket stamped 10 different times by standing in 10 different lines. Then you fill out a form showing where you want to sit and whether it should look and feel like an ocean liner, a passenger train, or a bus. If you succeed in getting on board the plane and the plane succeeds in getting off the ground, you have a wonderful trip .… except times when the rudder and flaps get frozen in position, in which case you have time to say your prayers and get yourself prepared before the crash.
The airport terminal is nice and colourful, with friendly stewards and stewardesses, easy access to the plane, and an uneventful takeoff … then the plane blows up without warning whatsoever.
Everyone marches out on the runway, says the password in unison and forms the outline of a plane. Then they all sit down and make a whooshing sound like they’re flying.
Everyone brings one piece of the plane with them when they come to the airport. They all go out on the runway and put the plane together piece by piece, arguing constantly about what kind of plane they are building.
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- Bill Gates is not giving you $1000, and Disney is not giving you a free vacation, no one is giving away cases of free M & M’s, the GAP is not giving away clothing.
There is no baby food company issuing class-action checks. MTV will not give you backstage passes if you forward something to the most people. You can relax; there is no need to pass it on “just in case it’s true.” Furthermore, just because someone said in the message, four generations back, that “we checked it out and it’s legit,” does not actually make it true.
2. There is no kidney theft ring in New Orleans. No one is waking up in a bathtub full of ice, even if a friend of a friend swears it happened to their cousin. If you are hell-bent on believing the kidney-theft ring stories, please see: http://urbanlegends.tqn.com/library/weekly/aa062997.htm
And I quote: “The National Kidney Foundation has repeatedly issued requests for actual victims of organ thieves to come forward and tell their stories. None have.“That’s “none ” as in “zero.” Not even your friend’s cousin.
3. Neiman Marcus doesn’t really sell a $200 cookie recipe. And even if they do, we all have it. And even if you don’t, you can get a copy at:
http://www.bl.net/forwards/cookie.html
Then, if you make the recipe and decide the cookies are that awesome, feel free to pass the formula on.
4. We all know all 500 ways to drive your roommates crazy, irritate co-workers, gross out bathroom stall neighbors and creep out people on an elevator. We also know exactly how many engineers, college students, Usenet posters and people from each and every world ethnicity it takes to change a light bulb.
5. If the latest NASA rocket disaster(s) DID contain plutonium that went to particulate over the eastern seaboard, do you REALLY think this information would reach the public via an AOL chain-letter?
6. There is no “Good Times ” virus. In fact, you should never, ever, ever forward any email containing any virus warning unless you first confirm it at an actual site of an actual company that actually deals with viruses.
Try: http://www.norton.com/ or http://www.kumite.com/
7. If your CC: list is regularly longer than the actual content of your message, you’ re probably going to Hell.
8. If you’re using Outlook, I.E., or Netscape to write email, turn off the “HTML encoding.” Those of us on UNIX shells can’t read it, and don’t care enough to save the attachment and then view it with a web browser, since you ‘re probably forwarding us a copy of the Neiman Marcus Cookie Recipe anyway.
9. If you still absolutely MUST forward that 10th-generation message showing everyone else who ‘s received it over the last 6 months. It sure wouldn’t hurt to get rid of all the “” (or the <) that begin each line. Besides, if it has gone around that many times — we’ ve probably already seen it. But PLEASE LEARN HOW TO COPY AND PASTE!!!!!
10. Craig Shergold (or Sherwood, or Sherman, etc.) in England is not dying of cancer or anything else at this time and would like everyone to stopsending him their business cards. He apparently is also no longer a “little boy” either.
11. The “Make a Wish ” foundation is a real organization doing fine work, but they have had to establish a special toll free hotline in response to the large number of Internet hoaxes using their good name and reputation. It is distracting them from the important work they do.
12. If you are one of those insufferable idiots who forwards anything that promises “something bad will happen if you don’t,” then something bad will happen to you if I ever meet you in a dark alley!
13. Women really are suffering in Afghanistan, and PBS and NEA funding are still vulnerable to attack (although not at the present time) but forwarding an email won ‘t help either cause in the least. If you want to help, contact your local legislative representative, or get in touch with Amnesty International or the Red Cross. As a general rule, email “signatures” are easily faked and mean NOTHING to anyone with any power to do anything about whatever the petition is complaining about NOTHING!!!
If you really care, and you’re not just trying to make yourself feel better when your server is down at work, then get the hell outdoors and start a REAL petition.
(PS — There is no bill pending before Congress that will allow long distance companies to charge you for long distance when using the Internet, nor for the Post Office to “tax ” e-mails.)
Bottom Line … composing e-mail or posting something on the Net is as easy as writing on the walls of a public restroom. Don’t automatically believe it unless it’s proven true… ASSUME it’s false, unless there is proof that it’s true. Get it? Got it? Good!
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So I am going through my email yesterday and I come across an email from TechNet announcing the beta of Microsoft 2010.
Even though I am a huge supporter of Open Office, I decided to give it a try. Since I already had a Hotmail account, the registration was very simple and within 5 minutes I was downloading the installer.
One of the first things I noticed when I began to install the application, was the options that were not selected. As seen in this screenshot, very few features are installed by default.

The install did seem to take a bit longer than normal, how much was part of the installer versus my test machine is undecided. None the less the installer did not take more than 20 minutes or so. Since I spend more time in the Word application that was where I headed first. It does appear that MS did listen to a lot of users concerning the start orb and has replaced it with the File tab. The remainder of the ribbon bar looks remarkably the same.
When you do go to the file tab, you get a lot more information at your mouse point without having to do a lot of digging.

So off I go. As I mentioned I use Open Office by default, so the first thing I did was open one of my documents created in Writer. It did take a few moments to bring the document up, but all of my formatting (such as it was) remained. I could even save it back into the .odt extension. There was the warning that the format was not completely compatible. I opened the file in Writer again and everything was golden. That was a big check mark in my books right there. Microsoft has been drug over the coals (rightfully so) for not being more compatible with other applications, this is a good step forward.
The next thing I wanted to look at was how it handles writing to a blog (not just Microsoft Live spaces). I realized how happy I was for the file menu to be back. With a couple of clicks I was being prompted to setup my blog connection. I selected Wordpress and entered the server and login information. Next time I know, I am writing the entry right now. One of the great features is the screenshot feature. Like the snipping tool in Vista and Windows 7, the screenshot tool is wonderful. When you go to insert you see the option screenshot, with the down arrow, you have the ability to just grab a full window or use the snipping tool. All of the images in this post were created using this format.
So far, I must say I am actually impressed with the direction of at least the Word portion. I will play with the excel portion later. Check back…
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You have to be old enough to remember Abbott and Costello,
And too old to REALLY understand computers, to fully appreciate this. For those of us who sometimes get flustered by our computers, please read on…
If Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were alive today, their infamous sketch, ‘Who’s on First?‘might have turned out something like this:

COSTELLO CALLS TO BUY A COMPUTER FROM ABBOTT
ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?
COSTELLO: Thanks I’m setting up an office in my den and I’m thinking about buying a computer.
ABBOTT: Mac?
COSTELLO: No, the name’s Lou.
ABBOTT: Your computer?
COSTELLO: I don’t own a computer. I want to buy one.
ABBOTT: Mac?
COSTELLO: I told you, my name’s Lou.
ABBOTT: What about Windows?
COSTELLO: Why? Will it get stuffy in here?
ABBOTT: Do you want a computer with Windows?
COSTELLO: I don’t know. What will I see when I look at the windows?
ABBOTT: Wallpaper.
COSTELLO: Never mind the windows. I need a computer and software.
ABBOTT: Software for Windows?
COSTELLO: No. On the computer! I need something I can use to write proposals,
Track expenses and run my business. What do you have?
ABBOTT: Office.
COSTELLO: Yeah, for my office. Can you recommend anything?
ABBOTT: I just did.
COSTELLO: You just did what?
ABBOTT: Recommend something.
COSTELLO: You recommended something?
ABBOTT: Yes.
COSTELLO: For my office?
ABBOTT: Yes.
COSTELLO: OK, what did you recommend for my office?
ABBOTT: Office.
COSTELLO: Yes, for my office!
ABBOTT: I recommend Office with Windows.
COSTELLO: I already have an office with windows! OK, let’s just say I’m sitting
At my computer and I want to type a proposal. What do I need?
ABBOTT: Word.
COSTELLO: What word?
ABBOTT: Word in Office.
COSTELLO: The only word in office is office.
ABBOTT: The Word in Office for Windows.
COSTELLO: Which word in office for windows?
ABBOTT: The Word you get when you click the blue ‘W’.
COSTELLO: I’m going to click your blue ‘W’ if you don’t start with some straight answers.
What about financial bookkeeping? You have anything I can track my money with?
ABBOTT: Money.
COSTELLO: That’s right. What do you have?
ABBOTT: Money.
COSTELLO: I need money to track my money?
ABBOTT: It comes bundled with your computer.
COSTELLO: What’s bundled with my computer?
ABBOTT: Money.
COSTELLO: Money comes with my computer?
ABBOTT: Yes. No extra charge.
COSTELLO: I get a bundle of money with my computer? How much?
ABBOTT: One copy.
COSTELLO: Isn’t it illegal to copy money?
ABBOTT: Microsoft gave us a license to copy Money.
COSTELLO: They can give you a license to copy money?
ABBOTT: Why not? THEY OWN IT!
(A few days later)
ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?
COSTELLO: How do I turn my computer off?
ABBOTT: Click on ‘START’…
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A little boy goes to his father and asks ‘Daddy, how was I born?’ The father answers, ‘Well, son, I guess one day you will need to find out anyway! Your Mom and I first got together in a chat room on Yahoo. Then I set up a date via e-mail with your Mom and we met at a cyber-cafe. We sneaked into a secluded room, and googled each other. There your mother agreed to a download from my hard drive. As soon as I was ready to upload, we discovered that neither one of us had used a firewall, and since it was too late to hit the delete button, nine months later a little Pop-Up appeared that said:
you’ve got male
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You read that correct. One day only, you can get a free year license for ZoneAlarm 2010. The leaders in free firewall software are offering you a free step up to the Pro version.
The offer couldn’t be easier to collect on. Go to http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/free/sum/index-b.html?cid=W100020 click on the download now button. You will be prompted to enter your name and email address and a bit later in the day you will be sent download instructions and the key.
Send this post or the URL to all of your friends that enjoy ZoneAlarm free or some other firewall. Thanks to CNet for the email that alerted me to this offer.
Please take and share either this post or the link to any friend who might be looking to get the upgrade.
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Google has always been known for not being the norm. An example is changing the banner image everyday for one event or another. Take today (October 7th) as an example. It is the date that barcodes were invented. They made the banner image a large bar code.
In addition to the logos, they have every language represented for their translation services as well as general search. For most, that would be enough. Not Google. Try this.
Go to Google.com, type Google L337 hit “I’m Feeling Lucky”.
You should see:

Direct Link: http://www.googoth.co.in/
There are a few more listed below. Please remember to go back to the main Google site before try each one:
Search Term: Google Gothic

Search Term: Google Linux

Search Term: Google BSD

Search Term: Google Ewmew

Search Term: Google Klingon

Search Term: Google Piglatin

Search Term: Google Easter Egg

Search Term: Google Bork

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