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THE PONY EXPRESS (continued): • In April, 1860, the Pony Express made its inaugural run, with a rider leaving St. Joseph at the same time one left Sacramento. The Answer: Dell. westbound rider made the journey in 10 days, LARGE NUMBER beating A theVERY eastbound rider’s arrival in St. Jo• seph Edward Kasner was a mathematician. Incould 1938 by two days, proving that the route he was asked to come up with a name for a be covered in 10 days. very large number: the numeral one, followed • At one time, there 80young Pony by any a hundred zeros. He were askedabout his two Express along they the trail traveling nephewsriders what name would suggest.east or west, with an average speed of 10 • Nine-year-old Milton suggestedmph. a name outMay, of the funnies. A cartoon stripWar character • In 1860, the Paiute Indian broke named Barney was very popular. Milton chose out, resulting in an interruption of mail deBarney’s last name for the number. livery. Several Pony Express stations were at• tacked Kasnerby announced name for the big the tribe, the withnew 16 employees killed number his next book, altering thethe spelling. and 150 in horses stolen. The war cost Comin addition the loss of • pany Sixty about years $75,000 later, Larry Page andtoSergey Brin developed a new internet search engine. Other life. search engines searched each webpage and • During its 18according months oftooperation, Ponya ranked them how manythe times Express delivered about 35,000 letters bespecific term appeared on them, but Page and tween Missouri andsearch California. owners Brin designed their engine The to search for hoped to obtain a mail delivery contract from the specific term and then find out how many linksU.S. there were that led to that page, the Government, but back it never materialwhichWhen resultedthe in afirst better search engine. teleized. transcontinental was instituted in October, • graph They line decided they needed a name1861, that reflected manyExpress websites the days ofhow the Pony werethe over.search Durengine They$90,000 took the ing that was time,searching. it had grossed andname lost of Edward Kasner’s very large number, only $200,000. Its assets were later sold to Wells they misspelled it slightly, so it ended up being Fargo for $1.5 million. spelled exactly the same way the cartoon • There have been nine movies made about the character Barney spelled his last name. What’s company, with theatfirst a silent film in 1925, it called? (Answer bottom of page) followed by Frontier Pony Express, starring COMPUTER FACTS Rogers 1939.said, A popular television se• Roy In 1981 BillinGates “640 kb of memory ries, The Young Riders, ran from 1989-1992, ought to be enough for anybody.” starring Stephen Baldwin and Josh Brolin. • Moore’s Law states that computer performance doubles every 18 to 24 months, and ever since 1971, this has been true. • HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple were all started in garages. Answer: Google, from googol.
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