Friends today we will highlight 12 interesting computer Facts that you might not be knowing it before,
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lets see them now.
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1)Over 6,000 new computer viruses are released every month.
2)The first computer mouse, constructed in 1964, was made out of wood.(by Doug Engelbart)
3)The average human being blinks 20 times a minute – but only 7 times a minute when using a computer.
4)The first electro-mechanical computer was developed in 1939.
5)By the end of 2012 there will be 17 billion devices connected to the internet.
6)5 out of every 6 internet pages are porn related.
7)Over 1 million domain names are registered every month.
8)With it’s 800 million interent users, Facebook would be the third largest country in the World.
9)The first hard drive was created in 1979 and could hold 5MB of data.
10)The nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra video card contains 222 million transistors.
11)20% of online viruses are released by organized crime units.
12The engineers who developed the IBM PC were known as “The Dirty Dozen”
13. Up until the 14th of September, 1995, domain registration was free.
14. One of the world’s leading computer and computer peripheral manufacturer Hewlett Packard was first started in a garage at Palo Alto in the year 1939.
15. One out of every 8 married couples in the USA (2011), met online.
16. Google estimates that the Internet today contains about 5 million terabytes of data (1TB = 1,000GB), and claims it has only indexed a paltry 0.04% of it all! You could fit the whole Internet on just 200 million Blu-Ray disks.
17. There are about five porn pages for every ‘normal’ web-page.
18. The prime reason the Google home page is so bare, is due to the fact that the founders didn’t know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. Infact, the submit button was a later addition initially, hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life.
19. Doug Engelbart had made the first computer mouse in 1964, and it was made out of wood.
20. Every minute, 10 hours of videos are uploaded on Youtube.
21. The world’s first computer which was named 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.
22. There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people using the Internet.
23. Amongst the most interesting computer facts is, when the first Apple computer which was built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, it was made by using parts they got for free from their employers. They were made to scrounge spare parts from work.
24. 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.
25. 70% of virus writers work under contract for organized crime syndicates.
26. A program named “Rother J” was the first computer virus to come into sight “in the wild” — that is, outside the single computer or lab where it was created.
27. ‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word which can be typed with only the left hand.
28. Mosaic was the first popular web browser which was released in 1993.
29. Of the 247 BILLION email messages sent every day, 81% are pure spam.
30. The first White House website was launched during the Clinton-Gore administration on October 21, 1994. Coincidentally, the site www.whitehouse.com linked to a pornography web site.
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