السبت، 21 مايو 2011

Most Popular Computer Facts


·         Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.

·         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.

·         TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

·         There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.

·         "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

·         80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women

·         In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator*.

·         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.

·         The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.

·         Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.



·         There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.

·         The first banner advertising was used in 1994.

·         E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.

·         The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.

·         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.

·         By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.

·         MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.



·         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.

·         There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.

·         For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.

·         Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.

·         The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.

·         Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'!

·         On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.

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