Korn Enterprises

Web Publisher Since 1995

Korn Enterprises is a Canadian web publishing company founded in Victoria, British Columbia in 1995. Greg Korn was a member of Big Blue and Cousins (www.bbc.org - which became the Victoria Computer Club) and in 1995 he employed Victoria Online (now defunct) to publish our first web page.

Tygran Non-Sports Cards (1995 - 2000) was an early internet only site that demonstrated the potential for non brick and mortar businesses catalog 17 November 1996 (islandnet.com/~tygran/tygran.htm)

Who Does That Song (2000 - 2020) began as a database of albums and songs in the 1970s. With the introduction of database management systems for microcomputers in the 1980s and the growing popularity of the internet in the 1990s, Who Does That Song merged their original database with a computer database online to create an internet searchable database of songs and the artists who recorded them. The integrity and popularity of the site resulted in numerous collaborations including Canada's foremost rock poster artist Bob Masse, and Victoria, British Columbia radio station The Q! rock door winning songs from 2002 to 2014 (whodoesthatsong.com)

Buy That Song (2004 - 2005) was a one stop site for finding and buying songs. It utilized the Who Does That Song database for artist, song and year information. Buy That Song also used Amazon Web Services for listening to and purchasing songs (buythatsong.com)

Top 10 Songs (2004 - present) was created in response to the growing popularity of paid song downloads and the lack of global digital song charts in the early 2000s. The first year end chart, Top 10 Songs of 2005, was topped by “Hollaback Girl” by Gwen Stefani. In 2005, "Hollaback Girl" was the first song ever to sell over one million downloads in the United States. From January 2014 to August 2018, Top 10 Songs included streaming with downloading to determine chart rankings. From September 2018 to February 2019, the top 10 songs were ranked based on the 10 most influential songs of the week. Top 10 Songs now ranks the top songs of the week and year 50 years ago (top10songs.com)

Your Top 10 Songs (2010 - 2015) ranked the most popular songs of all time based on user votes for their favourite songs. Users could sign in to vote and to create their own top 10 chart of favourite songs. A compilation of all votes ranked the 100 most popular songs. Users could view other charts and the songs and artists voted as favourites. If user songs were not in the Your Top 10 Songs database, the songs were researched to determine validity and then added to the database for future votes (yourtop10songs.com)

San Josef Bay (2010) was a collection of photos spanning the years from 1984 to 2010. San Josef Bay is in Cape Scott Provincial Park on the northwestern tip of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. San Josef Bay beach was ranked as the 26th best beach in the world in 2023, Canada’s only beach to make the list of the 50 best beaches. From the furthermost beach of San Josef Bay (past the sea stacks), you can hike to Mount St Patrick, which offers a panoramic view of Cape Scott and the surrounding area, when it’s not covered by cloud or fog. The temperate rain forest is home to large moss-covered trees, golden frogs and mushrooms oozing ruby-red liquid onto the forest floor. Near the small community of Holberg, when spawning coincides with heavy rainfall the salmon follow new rivulets that meander off Goodspeed River. As the waters recede salmon are left haplessly flopping in the forest (sanjosefbay.com)

tapioca (2011 - 2012) was an assortment of ideas that never found a niche. One feature was about the spread of misinformation on the internet, including the lack of an accurate/readable date that could be understood by the global population when reading something online e.g. 04/09/06, 1997-08-01, 13/12/12, etc. Or why is it so difficult for music apps’ shuffle feature to be non-repetitive with their playback? Why don’t these apps use an algorithm with a line of code like this, “has a song in this playlist been played yet, no, then it can be played from this playlist in shuffle.” The repetitiveness of most music apps’ shuffle is awful. Sort your playlist by artist or song title instead and play without shuffle – unless of course you like repetitive playlists. Also included were random bits of traditional media information, such as this paper Woodward’s (department store) placemat from Victoria, British Columbia of Canadian Prime Ministers from 1867 to 1968, Know Canada Better Weston booklet (outside) and Know Canada Better Weston booklet (inside). Another interesting piece was about the Excel 97 flight simulator. The instructions for activating the simulator were: 1. In Excel 97 open a new work sheet 2. Press F5 and type "X97:L97" in the reference box, then click OK 3. Hit your tab key once and you end up in cell M97 4. Press “Ctrl” and “Shift” while clicking on the chart wizard icon (blue/yellow/red bar chart). The flight simulator will now activate. Steer with your mouse, accelerate and decelerate with the left and right mouse buttons (tapio.ca)