It’s well-known, counterfeit money exists and is in circulation in the U.S.  The United States Government estimates less than .0001% of all money in circulation is counterfeit. 

Take a look at a humorous MSNBC story about a lady who tried to use a one million dollar bill at Wal-Mart.

All bills except for the $1 and $2 dollar bill have significant security features that have helped eliminate counterfeit money. New security features are added every few years to keep counterfeiters behind.  The U.S. Secret Service handles counterfeiting as a Federal Felony which is punishable by a fine and jail time.

To learn more about Counterfeit money in the U.S., visit Howstuffworks.

For any internet user, search engines are apart of daily life. Obviously, Google is the current powerhouse of all search engines, but it was not always this way. At the start of the search engine movement, huge companies were not creating search engines but rather college students were.

The first tool for searching the Internet was called “Archie”. It was created by Alan Emtage, a McGill University student in 1990. Archie was a program that downloaded a listing of all files located on public anonymous File Transfer Protocals (FTP). The list was generated into a searchable database for users to access.

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The history of domain names is an interesting and unique one.  The first domain to ever be registered online occurred over 20 YEARS ago!  Symbolics.com is credited with the first domain name.  After a quick Whois check, the domain was registered on March 15, 1985.

In 1984-1984, the DNS was created and the first top level domains were .com, .org, .edu, .gov, .mil and ccTLD’s.

The first of firsts for the domain industry:
First .com - symbolics.com
First .edu’s - cmu.edu, purdue.edu, rice.edu, ucla.edu (April of 1985)
First .gov - css.gov (June of 1985)
First .org - mitre.org (July of 1985)

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Among different forms of communication; including newspapers, magazines and television, the internet has by far made the biggest impact in the smallest amount of time.  During the mid-1990’s, the internet was spreading like a virus around the world.

By 1997, most the world’s nations were connected to the World Wide Web.  In comparison to the spread of the internet, it took 38 years for radio broadcasts to reach an audience of 50 million, 13 years for television, but only 4 years for the internet to reach such an audience.  In 1995, there were roughly 20 million internet users worldwide, and by 2000 there 400 million users.