Navtej Kohli

Navtej Kohli shares some amusing internet facts that you should know:

1. Who coined the phrase ‘World Wide Web’?

Tim Berners-Lee in 1990. He’s also considered by most people as the person who started the whole thing rolling.

2. How did the Internet Start ?

It all started with the time-sharing of IBM computers in the early 1960s at universities such as Dartmouth and Berkeley in the States. People would share the same computer for their computing tasks. The Internet also received help from Sputnik!

3. What was ARPANET?

ARPANET stands for ‘Advanced Research Projects Agency Network’ Came about in the arena of Sputnik and the cold war. The military needed a method of communicating and sharing all the information on computers for research and development. It would also be a handy communication system if all traditional ways were wiped out in a nuclear attack.

4. What was the First long distance Connection?

In 1965 using a low speed dial-up telephone line, MIT researcher Lawrence G. Roberts working with Thomas Merrill, connected the TX-2 computer in Massachusetts to the Q-32 in California. The phone lines weren’t quite up to the task!

5. When was the first mouse introduced?

The first computer mouse was introduced in 1968 by Douglas Engelbart at the Fall Joint Computer Expo in San Francisco.

Ever wonder if your PC is keeping secrets from you? Wonder no more. The utility ‘What’s Running’ reveals all your system’s active processes, services, drivers, and connections.

It’s like Windows Task Manager, except far more informative. The cramped multipane interface is a bit hard to read, but even it has its good points: it lists processes in a parent-child hierarchy, not a bad way to accidentally spot malware. It also lets you choose which columns of information to display, and it makes stopping or prioritizing processes as simple as a mouse click. It even lets you control which programs launch at start-up, and includes information on active DLLs, EXEs, and drivers.

Lacking only the ability to replace the Task Manager outright, What’s Running tells you things you didn’t know you needed to know.

The web is changing the very nature of intimacy, emotion and dating, says a new study.

An audit of online dating sites as part of the study has found that they are informal and are fast emerging as an effective way of developing one’s “social and intimate circle”.

The study, which audited 60 sites and conducted in-depth interviews with users, also found that the online communication had more intensity and immediacy, and, in some ways, was almost addictive in nature.

The study, by University of Melbourne researchers Millsom Henry-Waring and Jo Barraket, has been published in the International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society.

According to the study, an important feature of online communication was the drafting of one’s personal profile - perceived as one’s own “shop window”.

“Many of our participants talked about the fact that people were judged on the basis of how they looked, but also how their photos and profiles ‘talked’ online,” the authors wrote.

“We have suggested that a type of ‘hyper-communication’ occurs in the types of communication and also in the speed and intensity of the contact. As found in other studies, this appears to be facilitated by the informal and dis-inhibitive nature of the medium.”

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If you’ve been online as long as I have, you’ll remember the days of Web 1.0. The days when the internet was as controlled and inaccessible to the public as television still is today. The days when getting your content published necessitated that you were a media mogul, a mainstream media employee or very good with HTML.

Thank God those days are over. We all complain about how easy it is for the populous at large to get online: have you ever clicked through to someone’s MySpace or Bebo account and been assaulted by moving images, loud music and slow-loading videos? It’s terribly annoying. However, I’m of the opinion that, despite the annoyances of Web 2.0, the fact that the web is now largely controlled and influenced by the public is a great thing.

I’m not talking about awful networking sites here; I’m talking about sites like Associated Content, which bills itself as “The people’s media company.” There, users can create and publish content in a responsible, user-friendly, well designed context. This content isn’t produced and censored by CNN, Reuters or the like. It’s created by “real people.”

Now, you may say that everyone can now create a blog, which is essentially a website where you can post your thoughts and opinions. However, a small Blogspot or Wordpress blog is difficult to advertise and build a readership for. Publishing your content on a site like Associated Press, while it’s not on your own domain, exposes your writing to so many people without you having to market your own website or maintain it, fix its bugs, pay for it, etc.

When the net was dominated by those with money, power and knowledge, we were living in a far more closed climate than we are today. The example of the massive Digg revolt of a few weeks ago highlights the power that we users now have online. I’ll put up with dreadful MySpace atrocities in order to feel the sense of democracy and user-control that we now have on the internet. Contributing to sites like Associated Content only ensures that we maintain the control we now have.

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Handwriting Wizard website accurately anayzes personality. Based on a user survey released today, over 81.7% of the users rank the report of the HandwritingWizard.com very accurate.

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) January 21, 2006 — Do-It-Yourself Handwriting Analysis website turns out to be more than a “game.” Users concur results are more than chance and insights surprisingly accurate. What’s more, the data collected from the users reveals surprising personality traits of the typical Internet user.

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Based on a user survey, over 81.7% of the users rank the accuracy of the Handwriting Wizard over 80% accurate. This is surprising to skeptics and naysayers who still believe this psychological test is no more accurate than reading tea leaves.

When Bart Baggett launched the Handwriting Wizard website in 2004, he had no idea it would become the most popular destination of his network of handwriting analysis and self-help related websites. (www.HandwritingWizard.com )

Deciding to make the membership free was a good decision, giving away an Apple Ipod was another smart move. Making it free gives people who are just curious to check it out and see for themselves if there is any truth to the claim that your handwriting is a reflection of your personality.

It takes between 8-12 minutes to complete the online questionnaire which is the base data used to calculate the meaning of the strokes, letters, and curls of the typical cursive handwriting. Instantly, the user receives a 3-6 page “personality report” of writer. Many people use the test to get insight into their bosses, employees, lovers and spouses.

According website’s creator, Bart Baggett, “The exit surveys are very encouraging for the accuracy of handwriting analysis in general. I expect 98-100% accuracy when I personally analyze handwriting using my own eyes. However, I never expected a generalized test to score so high considering the entire data being input is based on a just 52 graphical traits, no combining of the traits, and an untrained eye.”

View full survey and users statistics: http://www.handwritingwizard.com/survey/results

This validation of graphology comes just before National Handwriting Week is recognized the week of John Hancock’s Birthday, (January 22-29, 2006). Handwriting University.com is offers training and certification in the science of handwriting analysis. They have campuses in India, China, and the USA. (www.HandwritingUniversity.com)

About Bart Baggett, President of Handwriting University
Bart is the author of five books on handwriting analysis, including “Handwriting Analysis 101” and “Success Secrets of the Rich and Happy” (Empresse Publishing).

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