Math Quiz

Microsoft designer Vincent Connare designed the sans-serif font, Comic Sans. He drew his inspiration from his favorite comic books, including the much-loved ‘Watchmen’ series and ‘The Dark Knight Returns’. Many designers argued that the font was overused, though Connare has claimed to have used it only once.

The marketing web pages for films Space Jam and You've Got Mail are also still up at their original URLs. The 1996 Michael Jordan/Bugs Bunny vehicle Space Jam and 1998's You've Got Mail were released at the dawn of the Internet marketing age, and so it's great for future historians that both websites are still available and more or less unchanged.

The decimal number system we use today seems like the obvious choice, given that we have ten fingers to count with. But in the olden days, people counted in dozens, not tens. Hence the word “hundred” – it derives from the old Norse “hundrath” and originally meant 120.