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Some Facts & Amazing Informations about Computers, Technologies & Internet

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Here are some Facts and Amazing informations about the computer and technologies.
 


  • 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women.
  • Only 8% of the world’s currency is physical money, the rest only exists on computers.
  • Bill Gates house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
  • With it’s 1000 million interent users, Facebook would be the third largest country in the World. 
  • The first 1GB hard disk, announced in 1980, weighed about 550 pounds, and was priced at $40,000.
  • 5 out of every 6 internet pages are porn related.
  • A computer as powerful as the human brain would be able to perform about 38 thousand trillion operations per second and hold about 3,584 terabytes of memory.
  • The average human being blinks 20 times a minute – but only 7 times a minute when using a computer or Mobile phone.
  • MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.
  • There is a Scandinavian company that is working on a way to translate what a dog is thinking using EEG-sensors and microcomputers. They already have a prototype available.
  • Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was a college drop out.
  • HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple have one thing in common. All of them were started in garages.
  • 80% of the emails sent daily are spammy.
  • One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.
  • There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.
  • The nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra video card contains 222 million transistors.
  • Lenovo stands for 'new legend'. 'Le' for legend, and 'novo' stands for new.
  • The Apollo 11 Lunar Lander which was used to travel to the moon, has less processing power than the processor of a cell phone.
  • Most of us must have played the game Tetris. Since the time it was created in the early eighties, it has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, which made its creator richer by $8m.
  • The 'Email' is older than the World Wide Web.
  • Konrad Zuse, has the credit of creating the world's first computer, known as the Z1, in 1936. Three years later, in the year 1939, the first fully-functioning electro-mechanical computer, known as Z2, was developed.
  • U.S. chose 00000000 as the password for its computer controls of nuclear tipped missiles for eight years.
  • The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
  • The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
  • The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
  • Out of the 1.8 billion Internet users, only 450 million can speak English.
  • Over 6,000 new computer viruses are released every month.
  • 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.
  • 12The engineers who developed the IBM PC were known as “The Dirty Dozen”
  • 'ShenMue' is the most expensive game ever to be made. It was developed for Sega Dreamcast, and was priced at $20 million.
  • If your work involves the extensive use of computers, then by the end of your average working day, your fingers would have traveled 12.6 miles.
  • 'Stewardesses' is the longest word which can be typed with only the left hand.
  • A normal human being blinks 20 times a minute, whereas, a computer user blinks only 7 times a minute!
  • The average 21 year old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games, has exchanged250,000 e-mails, instant and text messages and has spent 10,000 hours on the mobile phone.
  • On one of the world's most popular shopping websites, eBay, there are transactions of approx. $680 per second.
  • 'Crash Course' is another name for Microsoft Windows tutorials.
  • SanDisk was earlier known as SunDisk.
  • In 1936, the Russians made a computer that ran on water.
  • Three students from a school in Nevada had installed keystroke loggers on their teachers’ computers to intercept the teachers’ usernames and passwords, and then charged other students up to $300 to hack in and increase their grades.
  • There was a computer worm that would gain access to Windows XP systems, download a patch from Microsoft to close the vulnerability that it used to infect the system, attempt to delete the infamous Blaster worm (if present) from the system, then delete itself.
  • In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first ‘SUPER’ computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5 MB of data.
  • About 70% virus writers are actually employed by an organization under a contract.
  • If you open up the case of the original Macintosh, you will find 47 signatures, which is of each member of Apple's Macintosh division of 1982.
  • The hard disk today we use is up to 2TB. But The first hard drive was created in 1979 and could hold only 5MB of data.
  • 20% of online viruses are released by organized crime units.
  • Illegal prime numbers exist. An illegal prime is a prime number that represents information which is forbidden to possess or distribute. For example, when interpreted in a particular way, a certain prime describes a computer program that bypasses the digital rights management scheme used on DVDs .
  • The worst MS-DOS virus ever, Michelangelo (1991) attacked the boot sector of your hard drive and any floppy drive inserted into the computer, which caused the virus to spread rapidly.
  • Amazon is a printed book seller company, that now sells more eBooks than printed books.
  • Computer circuitry can be destroyed by static electricity. It is so mild for humans that we don't even feel it.
  • The first electro-mechanical computer was developed in 1939.
  • The first microprocessor, Intel's 4004, was designed for the Busicom calculator.
  • Almost all computer users must know how destructive a virus can be. But then, it would be interesting to know that a virus cannot corrupt your PC on its own. It corrupts your system only when you activate it, by either downloading infected files from the Internet, or by sharing these infected files.
  • Sweden is a country with the highest percentage of Internet users (75%).
  • Mosaic' was the first popular web browser, released in the year 1993.
  • Interface Manager! That's what Windows was originally named.
  • 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.
  • Although 95% of mail is now sorted by computers, the U.S. Postal Service still employs clerks to decipher addresses that are too messy for the computers to understand. These clerks are expected to process 1,000 letters an hour, and upwards of 20% of them quit within the first 5 weeks.
  • CAPTCHA is an acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”
  • MIT has developed a computer software that can identify and distinguish a real smile from a smile of frustration.
  • Investigators missed incriminating Google searches done on Casey Anthony’s computer – including “fool-proof suffication [sic]” – because they checked her Internet Explorer history, but ignored Firefox.
  • In some countries during the 70s, including the United Kingdom, Poland, Hungary, and the Netherlands, cassette data storage was so popular that some radio stations would broadcast computer programs that listeners could record onto cassette and then load into their computer.
  • The first entirely computer generated movie sequence in cinema history was the Genesis Device demonstration video in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The studio that made the scene would later become Pixar.
  • In 1988, when the American Internet was paralyzed by a computer virus, quick thinker Pål Spiller saved the Norwegian Internet by literally pulling the plug .
  • Big banks don’t process checks and debit card charges to your account in the order they’re received, but instead use a computer program that selects the biggest amounts first and charges them against your account; emptying your account faster and resulting in more overdraft fees (profit) .
  • In July, after receiving a warning from the FBI on his PC, Washington resident Jay Matthew Riley turned himself into police for possessing child pornography. The warning was fake and generated by a worm that had infected his computer.
  • The first actual computer “bug” was a dead moth which was stuck in a Harvard Mark II computer in 1947.
  • In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn’t considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator.
  • 40-55% of all Wikipedia vandalism is caught by a single computer program with 90% accuracy.
  • A wow player “Bradster” has 36 wow accounts and conducts raids with himself on 11 computers.
  • Alan Turing the father of computer science, artificial intelligence and who helped break German WW2 cyphers, committed suicide after being forced to undergo hormonal treatment for homosexuality and barred from continuing his cryptographic work.
  • 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.
  • The worst breach of U.S. military computers in history happened when someone picked up a memory stick (infected by a foreign intelligence agency) they found in the parking lot and plugged it into their computer, which was attached to United States Central Command.

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