1. IMDb is one of the oldest websites on the internet, and began on Usenet in 1990 as a list of “actresses with beautiful eyes.”
2. Tinder, OKCupid and Match.com are owned by the same company, InterActiveCorp, who also own CollegeHumor, Vimeo, and 50 other internet websites.
3. After the Haiti earthquake, the “Feed The Children” website claimed that the charity was “providing medical relief for 12,000 people”. In reality, they sent a total of three doctors, and two weeks after the earthquake it emerged that they had fed zero people.
4. Yelp.com uses extortionist tactics to coerce business owners into paying a monthly fee in order to remove negative reviews and to keep positive ones un-“filtered.”
5. The founder of match.com, Gary Kremen, lost his girlfriend to a man she met on match.com
6. Ashley Madison, a dating website for married people who want to cheat on their spouses, was sued for $21 million by a former employee, who says she damaged her wrists while typing up hundreds of fake profiles of sexy women.
7. Microsoft once threatened to sue a high school student named Mike Rowe for creating a website called MikeRoweSoft.com.
8. You are three times more likely to get a virus from a church website than you are to get from a pornographic website.
9. Www.whitehouse.com used to be a p*rn website, resulting in many schoolchildren in the late 1990s being accidentally exposed to adult content via the website.
10. Madonna uploaded an album of her to p2p sites with all of the songs in the loop of her saying “what the f**k you think you’re doing?” and in retort a hacker defaced her website with direct links to the album saying “This is the f**k i think im doing.”
11. In 2012, a hacker group named UGNazi took down the Papa John’s website because the company “took 2 hours longer than expected to deliver my food.”
12. Sony once sued itself. RIAA(partially controlled by Sony Music) sued Launch.com(owned by Sony’s Tech & Business unit), meaning that the Music Dept. somehow sued it’s Tech Dept.
13. NBC was forced to buy hornymanatee.com after Conan O’Brien mentioned the domain name on his show.
14. The website hampsterdance.com was created in 1998 as a result of a competition between two Canadian sisters to see who could generate the most traffic and is one of the earliest examples of an internet meme.
15. In 1999, the founders of Google actually tried to sell their website to Excite for $1 million. Excite turned them down.
16. The creators of Breaking Bad made a real savewalterwhite.com, and it has raised over $125,000 for The National Cancer Coalition.
17. The Offspring wanted to release their album ‘Conspiracy Of One’ (2000) from their website as a free download stating that ‘peer-to-peer downloads don’t hurt sales’ until their label threatened to sue.
18. Stargate was the first film to have an official dedicated website, in 1994.
19. elgoog.com(google backwards) has a huge following in China because elgooG search terms are printed in reverse, so users are able to perform Google searches without detection by the Chinese government’s search filters.
20. There is a website that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie in a theater, so you don’t miss anything too important.
21. In 2001, Neopets was the fourth most trafficked website on the internet, 8 spots in front of Google.
22. McDonald’s didn’t register “McDonalds.com” and had to donate to a school to get the domain from the Wired magazine writer, who had registered it in 1994.
23. MartinLutherKing.org is actually a website designed by a brutal, xenophobic, racist group called StormFront (US-based) to discredit King.
24. The government of “Free State, South Africa” spent $4 million on their website with a $40 WordPress theme.
25. In 2005, a student in England made a 1 million pixel webpage and put up the space for sale at $1 per pixel. He did this in order to pay for college and he was successful, selling out in less than 6 months.
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