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HowStuffWorks. com

URL	http://www.howstuffworks.com/
Commercial?	No (has roughly 8 corporate advertisements per entry)
Type of site	Informational
Owner	The Convex Group
Created by	Marshall Brain

HowStuffWorks is a website dedicated to explaining the way many things work. Uniform Resource Locator is an URI which also specifies where the identified resource is available and the protocol for retrieving it Marshall David Brain (born 1961 is the founder of HowStuffWorks. A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages The site uses photos, diagrams, video and animation to explain complex terminology and mechanisms in easy-to-understand language.

History

In 1998, former North Carolina State University professor Marshall Brain started the site as a hobby. North Carolina State University at Raleigh is a public, Coeducational extensive Research University located in Raleigh North Carolina Marshall David Brain (born 1961 is the founder of HowStuffWorks. In 1999, Brain began raising venture capital and formed HowStuffWorks, Inc. Venture capital (also known as VC or Venture) is a type of Private equity capital typically provided to immature high-potential growth companies In March 2002, HowStuffWorks was sold^[1] to the Convex Group, an Atlanta-based investment and media company founded by Jeff Arnold, founder and former CEO of WebMD. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. A chief executive officer ( CEO) or chief executive is typically the highest-ranking corporate officer ( executive) or administrator WebMD is a medical and wellness information service primarily known for its public Internet site which provides health information a symptom checklist pharmacy information blogs of The headquarters moved from Cary, North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia. Cary (ˈkeər'i is a town in Wake and Chatham counties in the U

In November 2004, HowStuffWorks moved its entertainment section to Stuffo,^[2] but in 2006, the team disbanded, and the site now redirects visitors to the site's entertainment channel.

The website in its early days focused mostly on science and machines, ranging from submarines to common household gadgets and appliances. After adding a staff of writers, artists and editors, content expanded to a larger array of topics.

The domain howstuffworks. In Computer networking, a domain name is a name given to a collection of network devices that belong to a domain which is an administrative space managed according com attracted at least 58 million visitors^[3] annually by 2008 according to a Compete.com survey. Competecom is a United States Web traffic analysis service that publishes the approximate number of U

There have been four HowStuffWorks books: two hardcover, illustrated coffee table books, called HowStuffWorks and More HowStuffWorks, and two unillustrated paperbacks, How Much Does the Earth Weigh? and What If?. A Book is a set or collection of written printed illustrated or blank sheets made of Paper, Parchment, or other material usually fastened together A hardcover (or hardback or hardbound) is a Book bound with rigid protective covers (typically of cardboard covered with Cloth A coffee table book is a Hardcover Book that is intended to sit on a Coffee table or similar surface in an area where guests sit and are entertained thus Paperback, softback, or softcover describe and refer to a Book by the nature of its binding. HowStuffWorks puts out an educational magazine called "HowStuffWorks Express" for middle school students. The company has also put out a series of HowStuffWorks trivia "LidRock" discs — CD-ROMs sold on fountain drink lids at Regal Theaters. Regal Entertainment Group ( is the largest Movie theatre chain in North America, operating 6423 screens in 529 locations in 41 U

Howstuffworks recently acquired Mobil Travel Guide and Consumer Guide.

HSW Brasil is a Brazilian version for HowStuffWorks in Portuguese called "Como as coisas funcionam". |utc_offset = -2 to -4 |time_zone_DST = BRST |utc_offset_DST = -2 to -5 |cctld Portuguese ( or língua portuguesa) is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia (Spain and northern Portugal. HSW Brasil is a part of HSW International.

On October 15, 2007, Discovery Communications announced plans to buy HowStuffWorks for US$250 million ^[4]. Events 533 - Byzantine General Belisarius makes his formal entry into Carthage, having conquered it from the Discovery Communications LLC (DCL is an American global media and entertainment company that began as a single channel the Discovery Channel, launched in 1985

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