INTRESTING FACTS ABOUT COMPUTER AND INTERNET YOU MUST KNOW
Computer Facts I Bet You Didn’t Know
- Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is ‘Crash Course’!
- Bill Gates house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
- By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.
- Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.
- E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
- In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn’t considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator.
- MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.
- One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.
- The average 21 year old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games, has exchanged 250,000 e-mails, instant and text messages and has spent 10,000 hours on the mobile phone.
- The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20
- The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
- The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
- The world’s first computer, called the Z1, was invented by Konrad Zuse in 1936. His next invention, the Z2 was finished in 1939 and was the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer.
- There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.
- There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.
- While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.
- 20.70% of virus writers work under contract for organized crime syndicates.
- Country with the highest percentage of net users is Sweden (75%).
- The first popular web browser was called Mosaic and was released in 1993.
- Amazon, originally a printed book seller company, now sells more e-books than printed books.
- The first two video games copyrighted in the U.S. were Asteroids and Lunar Lander in 1980.
- U.S. President Bill Clinton’s inauguration in January 1997 was the first to be webcast.
- Google uses an estimated 15 billion kWh of electricity per year, more than most countries. However, Google generates a lot of their own power with their solar panels.
- Up until the 14th of September, 1995, domain registration was free.
- Every minute, 10 hours of videos are uploaded on YouTube.
- Over 6,000 new computer viruses are released every month.
- The first computer mouse, constructed in 1964, was made out of wood.
- With it’s 800 million interent users, Facebook would be the third largest country in the World.
- The first hard drive was created in 1979 and could hold 5MB of data.
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