Achilles Interactive, Inc.

Note from our President:

Here at Achilles Interactive, our mission is to create visually appealing creative which integrates seamlessly into an effective technology solution.

Our number one goal with our clients is to create a relationship based on mutual trust and open communication. This will help ensure delivery of our absolute best work.

We strive to create a enthusiastic culture in which every team member feels like they can be involved in the process from initial concepts all the way through live implementation.

We are your creative, technical, media and marketing partner, we are Achilles Interactive.

Kevin

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Did You Know?

The internet is quickly closing the gap between local newspapers and the Yellow Pages as the second-most used advertising medium.

Echobay Technology Group was forced to register ebay.com after discovering echobay.com was already taken.

Tim Berners-Lee is credited with inventing the World Wide Web.

Ray Tomlinson sent the world's first e-mail message.

On March 26, 1976, Queen Elizabeth II sent the first royal e-mail.

Television took 13 years to reach 50 million users. The Internet took less than four years to reach that many users.

The internet was advertising-free up until 1992, when the U.S. Congress amended the National Science Foundation Act.

Netscape made the browser used by 90% of web surfers until the release of Internet Explorer 4.

Hotwired.com created the web's first banner ads.

eCompanies bought 'business.com' in 1999 for $7.5 million.

In 1996 Yahoo launched Yahooligans, a kid-friendly web directory.

Digital Equipment Corporation was the first computer company to register a domain name.

Archie is considered the internet's first search engine, created in 1990.

According to the the Merriam Webster Dictionary in 1946, a computer was defined as 'a person who tabulates numbers; accountant; actuary; bookkeeper.'

Excite.com was started by six Stanford students looking for an exciting way to stay together after graduation.

'Carnivore' was developed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as in internet survellience system designed to monitor e-mail and electronic communication.

In 1989 the World Wide Web was born at CERN in Switzerland.

A person receives an average of 26 e-mails per day.

In 1993, Boeing was the first airline to discover the Y2K problem.

Yahoo's original URL was akebono.stanford.edu.

In 2001, John Paul II became the first Pope to send e-mail.

In 1994 Lee Stein opened First Virtual Holdings, considered the interet's first truly electronic bank.

The "@" symbol was once considered a letter in the English language. Other cultures refer to it in many different ways. Chinese:little mouse, Danes and Swedes:elephant's trunk, Germans:spider monkey, Italians:snail, Israelis:strudels, Czechs:rollmops

Amazon.com was originally known as Cadabra.com.

AOL acquired CompuServe in 1997. CompuServe was the first Internet Service Provider.