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47 unusual facts about Net


.net

As of 2011, it is the third most popular top-level domain, after .com and .de.

.nf

net.nf parallel the .com and .net TLDs, while some of the others appear to be based on proposed new TLDs from the late 1990s which were never implemented (other than the eventual use of .info).

Apex High School

Programming courses offered cover four different programming languages starting with Visual Basic .NET (Computer Programming I) followed by C# (Computer Programming II), SAS (SAS Programming I), and Java (AP Computer Science A).

Art.Net

Women artists (Art.Net was founded by, and many members are, women artists.)

Battle.net

A group of gamers reverse engineered the network protocol used by Battle.net and Blizzard games, and released a free (under the GNU GPL) Battle.net emulation package called bnetd.

Biblioislam.net

Biblioislam.net is according to its founder Hani Atiyyah, professor of Library and Information Science at Cairo University, the first and largest academic website to be launched in both Arabic and English in the Muslim world that provides comprehensive informative, academic, intellectual, and interactive services.

Blabbermouth.net

The busiest day so far was 298,000 unique visitors in a single 24-hour period, which occurred on the day of Ronnie James Dio's passing (May 16, 2010).

Robert Kampf, a friend of Krgin who runs Century Media Records, was staying with Krgin in New York and set up a meeting with Gunter Ford of World Management.

In October of the same year Monte Conner, a friend of Krgin, and a Roadrunner Records artist and repertoire approached Krgin with the idea of having the site hosted on the Roadrunner servers.

BugTracker.NET

The last known critical vulnerability for BugTracker.NET was in 2005, when Secunia warned of SQL injection vulnerabilities in version 2.0.

Chinadialogue.net

It shares a similarity in construction and ethos with China Digital Times, which is run by the China Internet Project at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.

ChristianRock.Net

It started in 1998, and is one of four 24/7 Christian rock stations in the country (alongside RadioU and BrokenFM).

Climateprediction.net

A thermohaline circulation slowdown experiment was launched in May 2004 under the classic framework to coincide with the film The Day After Tomorrow.

Distributed.net

A cow head was selected as the icon of the application and the project's mascot.

Unfortunately, this initial effort had to be suspended as the result of SYN flood attacks by participants upon the server.

DStv

The original video channel bouquet consisted of 17 channels: M-Net, MGM TV, TCM, TNT Sci-Fi Universal, SuperSport, ESPN, SelecTV, Travel Channel, KTV, Cartoon Network, BBC World News, CNN International, Sky News, Trinity Broadcasting Network, MTV, VH1 and TV5Monde.

ESys.net

These features, such as reflection / introspection, the translation to an intermediate representation instead of machine code (the CIL) that still contains information about user-defined classes, platform independence and extensive thread management functionality, are supposed to allow for faster development and easier debugging of systems.

ESys.net is a hardware system design library for the .net/Mono frameworks that is basically a port of the SystemC framework for C++.

FanFiction.Net

Public domain lyrics (such as those to "Amazing Grace") or lyrics written by the author of the fan fiction are allowed, however.

GWI.net

In 1997, Biddeford Internet Corporation completed statewide network access in Maine and changed its name to Great Works Internet, in honor of the Great Works River - a 27-mile long river in Southwestern Maine.

I'm not sorry

I'm Not Sorry.net, a web site featuring accounts from women who do not regret having an abortion

Jaggi Singh

Singh currently produces No One Is Illegal Radio, which is broadcast on CKUT and podcasted by the A-Infos Radio Project.

Jean A. Stuntz

Stuntz was the president of H-Net, an Internet site for scholars and teachers which seeks to promote the study of history and the social sciences, in 2010.

Log-net

LOG-NET also extended its product to integrate with leading warehouse management systems such as Manhattan Associates, EXE, SAP:WM and others.

Microsoft Roslyn

Microsoft "Roslyn" is a set of APIs for exposing the Microsoft C# and Visual Basic .NET compilers as services available at runtime.

Microsoft.net

.NET Framework, a software component that is a part of Microsoft Windows operating systems

Mnet

M-Net, a South African subscription-funded television channel

Murder of Leigh Matthews

In July 2012, the murder was covered in two episodes of the M-Net Crimes Uncovered crime docu-drama television series titled A Family's Nightmare Begins: The Leigh Matthews Story (Part 1) and A Web of Lies: The Leigh Matthews Story (Part 2).

Mxit

On 30 July 2006, the M-Net actuality program Carte Blanche broadcast an insert in which a young girl explained how an alleged pedophile contacted her via Mxit.

Net-SNMP

The package was later abandoned by CMU and Wes Hardaker at UC Davis renamed it to UCD-SNMP and extended it to meet the network management needs of the Electrical Engineering department there.

NHS.net

# Nokia devices: All Nokia devices with an Exchange client are able to connect, however most models do not support encryption and therefore their use breaches NHSmail security policies.

OLM.net

In 2000, OLM and its staff and clients were featured on a Leonard Nimoy documentary television show.

One-Net

Star network topology can be used to lower complexity and cost of peripherals, and also simplifies encryption key management.

OpenDemocracy.net

The editor-in-chief is Magnus Nome, with former editor-in-chief Tony Curzon Price as contributing editor, and David Hayes as Deputy Editor.

Paint.NET

In May 2007, Miguel de Icaza officially started a porting project called paint-mono.

Perspectivia.net

Articles and reviews are primarily submitted throughout the world by the German Historical Institutes and their invited scholars.

Portable.NET

In a note posted on the Free Software Foundation's news website in June 2009, Richard Stallman warned that he believes "Microsoft is probably planning to force all free C# implementations underground some day using software patents" and recommended that developers avoid taking what he described as the "gratuitous risk" associated with "depending on the free C# implementations", including Portable.NET.

Radio 4

Radio 4 All, an internet audio archive of over 35,000 independent non-commercial radio programs.

TestDox

Created by Chris Stevenson in 2003, to date versions exist for .net, PHP and Ruby.

TheOneRing.net

For example, it was TheOneRing.net that Peter Jackson emailed in an effort to get his side heard when a lawsuit threatened his chance to film The Hobbit.

Over 1,500 "Ringers" (Lord of the Rings fans) from around the world came to the TheOneRing.net Oscar Party at the Hollywood, CA, American Legion on February 28, 2004.

The site is unique in that there is a mutual working relationship between the crew of TheOneRing.net and that of The Lord of the Rings movies, and now The Hobbit movies.

The foreword by Tom Shippey, well-known Tolkien scholar and author of The Road to Middle-earth and J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century, says: "The Internet, the experience of continually answering questions and receiving comments ... give the organizers of TheOneRing.net a perspective which is uniquely broad, and uniquely full of surprises, some of which would have pleased Tolkien very much, but which he could not have expected."

Tomoko Namba

She started DeNA after working on a consulting assignment with Sony's So-net while she was a consultant at Mckinsey.

Tribe.net

tribe.net features many "tribes", loosely based on the theory of urban tribes propounded by Michel Maffesoli and Ethan Watters.

VSdocman

VSdocman allows commenting and the automatic generation of technical documentation from VB .NET and C# source code files.

X.net

X.net provides legal advice on copyright, licences, the Spanish levy on private copying, private copies, P2P, copyright collecting societies, broadcast rights and other issues relating to the digital society.


1 E+11 m³

200 billion m3 — estimated volume of the annual net inflow of seawater to the Black Sea (from the Mediterranean Sea via the Bosporus)

Advisors Asset Management

In 1998, Scott Colyer founded Sterling Resources, a fixed income and wealth preservation company for high net worth clients and institutions in Monument, Colorado.

Arline Friscia

Democrats statewide saw a net gain of three seats in the Assembly in the 1995 elections, with two of the pickups coming in the 19th District where Friscia and John S. Wisniewski knocked off the Republican incumbents Stephen A. Mikulak and Ernest L. Oros.

ASAHI Net

;:ASAHI Net subscribers have the option of donating 100 yen to the effort to end world hunger through the World Food Programme organization as part of the United Nations.

Aviom

Headquartered in West Chester, Pennsylvania, Aviom produces distributed audio networking gear which uses a proprietary digital audio transport system called A-Net, based on the physical layer of Ethernet and carried over Category 5 cables terminated with 8P8C connectors.

Carlos Bueno

On the 15th he scored his first goal for the club, against Everton de Viña del Mar in a 5–1 success (also away), coming off the bench at Estadio Francisco Sánchez Rumoroso in Coquimbo; nine days later he also found the net against Oriente Petrolero of Bolivia, a in 2–2 home draw (2–3 aggregate loss).

Carmen Busquets

Busquets was included in the Fashion’s New Order list alongside Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, Net-a-Porter founder Natalie Massenet and fashion mogul Bernard Arnault.

CodeRush

It supports C# 4.0, VB10, ASP.NET, HTML, JavaScript, XML, XAML and C++.

Component-based Scalable Logical Architecture

NET is a software framework created by Rockford Lhotka that provides a standard way to create robust object oriented programs using business objects.

Cyber-utopianism

Cyber-utopianism as a concept was first coined by Evgeny Morozov in his book The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom, this utopianism is a belief that online communication is in itself emancipatory and that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor.

Dada Entertainment

Its assets include Dada’s mobile club, Dada.net, Upoc (mobile community) and Sony Music Box (BREW application live on Verizon Wireless, Alltel and U.S. Cellular).

Don Tapscott

Don Tapscott, The Net Generation Takes The Lead; in: Willms Buhse/Ulrike Reinhard: Wenn Anzugträger auf Kapuzenpullis treffen (When Suits meet Hoodies), whois-Verlag 2009.

Edward Samuel Rogers

, OC (May 27, 1933 – December 2, 2008) was the President and CEO of Rogers Communications Inc., and the fifth richest person in Canada in terms of net worth.

Etherpad

Localization is achieved collaboratively through translatewiki.net.

Frank G. Rubio

He writes in Javier Sierra's Más Allá, Javier Esteban's Generación XXI (now Generacion.Net) and other publications.

Gene Wojciechowski

These works include The Bus: My Life In and Out of a Helmet (Doubleday 2007) with Jerome Bettis; I Love Being the Enemy: A Season on the Court with the NBA’s Best Shooter and Sharpest Tongue (Simon & Schuster 1995) with Reggie Miller; Nothing but Net: Just Give Me the Ball and Get Out of the Way (Hyperion Books 1995) with Bill Walton; and My Life on a Napkin: Pillow Mints, Playground Dreams and Coaching the Runnin’ Utes (Hyperion 1999) with Rick Majerus.

Greensteds School

In the last term (Trinity) boys play rugby, football and basketball, while the girls play net ball.

Iskander Makhmudov

In November 2012, it was announced that TMH had increased its net profit by 9 percent to 2.69 billion rubles.

Joe Salmon

Liam Devaney, Donie Nealon and Larry Keane all scored goals for Tipp in the first-half, while Tony Wall sent a 70-yard free untouched to the Galway net.

Ken Banks

Ken Banks is the Founder of kiwanja.net and creator of FrontlineSMS, a mobile messaging application aimed at the grassroots non-profit community.

Media Access Project

One of the bigger cases that lead to current net neutrality rules was in 2007 when internet service provider Comcast was caught directly manipulating or blocking their subscriber’s access to the popular file sharing service BitTorrent.

Michal Tabara

After losing a first-round match to Justin Gimelstob in five sets, Tabara, who was allegedly frustrated by Gimelstob's frequent injury time-outs, spat in Gimelstob's direction as they approached the net to shake hands.

NeoLoad

NeoLoad supports any type of web application including those using J2EE, .NET, AJAX, Flex, Silverlight, GWT, SOAP, PHP, Push technology, etc. as long as they are HTTP 1.0 or 1.1 compliant.

Nery Pumpido

At the 1990 World Cup, Pumpido was at fault for Cameroon's winning goal, fumbling François Omam-Biyik's header into the net as the African nation shocked the defending champions at the tournament's opening game in Milan, winning by a goal to nil.

Net gun

One notable example of a net gun is used in the Predator series of films, most notably Predator 2 and Alien vs. Predator.

Philip Greenspun

Greenspun released the software behind photo.net as a free open-source toolkit called the ArsDigita Community System, built on top of the Oracle relational database management system.

Prityazhenya bolshe net

"Prityazhenya bolshe net" (Russian: Притяженья больше нет, No attraction anymore) is the single released in January 2004 by Valeriy Meladze featuring Ukrainian/Russian girl group Nu Virgos.

Recession

Economist Richard C. Koo wrote that under ideal conditions, a country's economy should have the household sector as net savers and the corporate sector as net borrowers, with the government budget nearly balanced and net exports near zero.

Ritek

Confusingly, Rimedia, Ridisc and Rivision are not Ritek brands, but instead come from E-net, a company also known for Datawrite, Datasafe and Tuffdisc brands.

Ruairí McKiernan

He is a recipient of a Social Entrepreneurs Ireland award, an Irish Internet Association Net Visionary Award, and a Junior Chambers Ireland award.

Sedo

Tobias Flaitz, formerly of the privately held German-based Hubert Burda Media, joined Sedo as the new CEO of both Sedo Holding AG (including Sedo's sister company, Affili.net) and Sedo.

SlashNET

SlashNET has been host to numerous IRC forums with famous people in the tech industry, including Ken Coar, Marcel Gagne, Richard Stallman, Jamie Zawinski, Matt Dillon of DragonflyBSD, Rob 'CmdrTaco' Malda and Jeff 'Hemos' Bates of Slashdot, Rusty Foster and Dylan 'Inoshiro' Griffiths of kuro5hin, and the distributed.net crew.

South Dakota State Jackrabbits men's basketball

The team does not have an official television partner, but Jackrabbit games have been televised on Midco Sports Net, Fox College Sports, the Big Ten Network, ESPN2, ESPNU, and local television networks.

Sports Time

The Kansas City Royals have been shown on its own network, RSTN; Fox Sports Net; Metro Sports, or a combination of them over the years; it is Fox Sports Net-exclusive as of 2008.

String-net liquid

In condensed matter physics, a string-net is an extended object whose collective behavior has been proposed as a physical mechanism for topological order by Michael A. Levin and Xiao-Gang Wen.

Teaser campaign

One of the more notable exceptions to this rule is Spider-Man, whose teaser trailer featured a mini-movie plot of bank robbers escaping in a helicopter, getting caught from behind and propelled backward into what at first appears to be a net, then is shown to be a gigantic spider web spun between the two towers at the World Trade Center.

UTF-16

UTF-16 is used by the Qualcomm BREW operating systems; the .NET environments; and the Qt cross-platform graphical widget toolkit.

Vinod Kumar Dwivedi

He got an MA in Political Science, the Sangeet Prabhakar (Vocal) from Prayag Sangeet Samiti, and the Sangeet Alankar (Vocal) from Gandharav Mandal, and passed the UGC NET lectureship examination (Music).

Wealth tax

In 1999, Donald Trump proposed for the United States a once off 14.25% wealth tax on the net worth of individuals and trusts worth $10 million or more.

Zena El Khalil

Among the speakers were Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia and Jonathan Zittrain, one of the principal investigators of the Open Net Initiative.