For your boring Tuesday work day, take a look at some interesting technology facts.

Recent Facts about Internet Usage:

1. Among teens in the United States, 76.4% use the internet atleast once a month. This figure is expected to increase to 87.1% by 2011. (eMarketer)
2. 86.6% of Internet users spend more than 6 hours per week online.
3. Peer-to-peer services are expected to generate ISPs about $28 billion during the next 5 years. (Insight Research Corp.)
4. Two-thrids of American Internet users shop online.
5. Online advertising is $21 billion dollar business in the United States.
6. Two-thirds of all homes in the U.S. have a broadband Internet connection.
7. In 2007, Facebook.com was given an estimated value of $15 billion dollars!

Historical Tech Facts:

1. The URL: http://akebono.stanford.edu/ used to be the original home of Yahoo!
2. Domain registration was free until the National Science Foundation decided to change this on September 14th, 1995.
3. In 1993, Boeing was the first to discover the Y2K problem.
4. Lee Stein invented the first online electronic bank in 1994 entitled, “First Virtual Holdings”.
5. The first Internet Service Provider (ISP) was CompuServe which is now under control of AOL Time Warner.