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Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the Internet, apologized for adding "//" to "http://". He said "http:" alone would have sufficed, but he added the slashes because "it looked cool at the time."
The term 'spam mail' comes from Monty Python's comedy sketch 'Spam.' During World War II, the US supplied massive amounts of SPAM cans to Britain, and the Brits' frustration inspired the sketch. The name later stuck to annoying promotional emails.
Searching '241543903' brings up photos of people with their heads in refrigerators. In 2009, American artist David Horvitz created this number by combining his fridge's serial number with barcodes of food inside it, sparking an internetmeme that spread worldwide from Brazil.
The standard test image in computerimage processing comes from a 1972 Playboy magazine. A researcher cropped Lena Forsen's photo for a paper, and it became the field's benchmark, earning her the nickname "First lady of the internet."
Bill Burr, who wrote the 2003 NIST guidelines recommending passwords mix uppercase, numbers, and special characters, later said he regretted it — his reference material was from the 1980s. Experts now say long passphrases of multiple words are both safer and easier to remember.