Belle Resident Wins $10,000 on iWon.com, The Internet's Largest Guaranteed Cash Giveaway.IRVINGTON, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 17, 1999-- New Destination Portal Awards Belle's Lewis Totten $10,000 Daily Cash Giveaway; First iWon.com Winner from West Virginia West Virginia, E central state of the United States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania and Maryland (N), Virginia (E and S), and Kentucky and, across the Ohio R., Ohio (W). Facts and Figures Area, 24,181 sq mi (62,629 sq km). Pop. iWon.com (www.iwon.com), a CBS-backed destination Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the portal combining world-class search, content and functionality with the Internet's largest guaranteed cash giveaway, today announced that Lewis Totten from Belle, West Virginia Belle is a town in Kanawha County, West Virginia, along the Kanawha River. The population was 1,259 at the 2000 census. Belle was incorporated on December 13, 1958 by the Kanawha County Circuit Court. It is the home of the Belle Bulldogs Elementary School. , won its $10,000 Daily giveaway. Mr. Totten will also be eligible to win iWon.com's $1 million Monthly giveaway and the $10 million Tax Day giveaway on April 17, 2000. "Lewis Totten is the latest of many lucky people to win iWon.com's $10,000 Daily cash giveaway," said Co-CEO Bill Daugherty. "With iWon.com, people like Mr. Totten are now being rewarded for doing what they're already doing online, such as checking their email, checking their hometown home·town n. The town or city of one's birth, rearing, or main residence. Noun 1. hometown - the town (or city) where you grew up or where you have your principal residence; "he never went back to his hometown again" weather and searching the Internet. We're thrilled thrill v. thrilled, thrill·ing, thrills v.tr. 1. To cause to feel a sudden intense sensation; excite greatly. 2. To give great pleasure to; delight. See Synonyms at enrapture. that Mr. Totten became a Daily winner and is now a part of the iWon.com family of winners." Lewis Totten is iWon.com's seventy-second $10,000 Daily winner, and the first winner from West Virginia. Previous $10,000 Daily winners hail from 70 cities representing 29 states across the country. iWon.com, which is similar in concept to Yahoo!, Excite, Lycos and other Internet portals, is giving away, to its users, $10,000 every day, $1 million every month and $10 million on Tax Day (April 17, 2000). By simply using the site to search the Web, check email, go shopping or perform other regular Internet activities, iWon.com users earn entries with practically every click. This marks the first and only portal to offer such a powerful consumer reward feature. All $10,000 Daily winners are posted on the site each day, while the $1 million Monthly winners and the $10 million Tax Day winner will be announced in prime time on the CBS Television Network CBS Television Network Major U.S. broadcasting company and network. It began in 1928 as the Columbia Broadcasting System, a small radio network directed by William S. Paley. . Participation in the program is free, and entries accumulated ac·cu·mu·late v. ac·cu·mu·lat·ed, ac·cu·mu·lat·ing, ac·cu·mu·lates v.tr. To gather or pile up; amass. See Synonyms at gather. v.intr. To mount up; increase. by users are displayed and updated on a real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. basis through an innovative and patent-pending entry tracking system that appears at the top of each page. About iWon.com iWon.com, based in Irvington, NY, is a CBS-backed destination Internet portal combining world-class search, content and functionality with the Internet's largest guaranteed cash giveaway. Located at www.iwon.com, iWon.com is giving away, to its users, $10,000 every day, $1 million every month and $10 million on Tax Day (April 17, 2000). Users collect entries into the Daily, Monthly and Tax Day giveaways for practically everything they do on the site from searching the Web and reading the news to checking their emails and tracking their stocks. The more you use iWon.com, the more entries you collect and the greater your chances of winning. Participation is free. |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion