Interesting Facts of Computer

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Enjoy some great computer facts and interesting information about these amazing devices which play such an important role in our modern day lives.

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. The Dvorak keyboard is more efficient than QWERTY. The standard “QWERTY” keyboard was not designed with ease of typing in mind. Rather, it was designed to keep early typewriters from jamming. 130 years later, in the age of computers, people are still using this awkward, inefficient keyboard layout. Few know that there is a much faster, easier, more efficient, and more comfortable alternative: the Dvorak (pronounced ‘duh VOR ak’) keyboard. Unlike QWERTY, the Dvorak keyboard was scientifically designed for increased speed and accuracy. It is estimated to be 12 to 20 times more efficient than QWERTY. Dvorak is great for beginning and experienced typists alike. It’s the layout used by some of the world’s fastest typists.
4. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
5. In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn’t considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator.
6. The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
7. Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.
8. There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.
9. The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
10. E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
11. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.
12. By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the internet.
13. There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the internet.
14. Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is ‘Crash Course’!
15. Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was a college drop out.
16. There are approx. 6,000 new computer viruses released every month.
17. If you want to get a computer aquarium, then you must get the Macquariums which are aquariums made from old Macintosh computers.
18. It is believed that the first computer virus released in the world was a boot sector virus, which was created in the year 1986 by Farooq Alvi brothers. It was designed by them to protect their research work.
19. The group of 12 engineers who designed IBM PC were called as “The Dirty Dozen”.
20. The quintessential command ‘Ctrl+Alt+Delete’ was written by David Bradley.
21. Sweden is a country with the highest percentage of internet users (75 per cent).
22. I am sure most of us must have played the game Tetris. Since the time it was created in early eighties, it has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, which made it’s creator richer by $8m.
23. 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.
24. Computer circuitry can be destroyed by static electricity, it is so mild for humans that they don’t even feel it.
25. “Stewardesses” is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
26. Amazon, originally a printed book seller company, now sells more e-books than printed books.
27. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
28. 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women
29. Tim Berners-Lee coined the phrase “World Wide Web” in 1990.
30. U.S. President Bill Clinton’s inauguration in January 1997 was the first to be webcast.
31. 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.
32. Bill Gates house was designed Using a Macintosh computer.
33. About 1.8 billion people connect to the Internet, only 450 million of them speak English.
34.  In 2012, approximately 17 billion devices (which includes computers, tablets and mobile) connected to the Internet.
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     Sweden has the hightest percentage of internet users, they are 75%.
36. Did you know that Email was already around before the World Wide Web came?
37. Up until the 14th of September, 1995, domain registration was free.
38. 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.
39.  One out of every 8 married couples in the USA (2011), met online.
40. 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.
41. 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.
42. Doug Engelbart had made the first computer mouse in 1964, and it was made out of wood.
43. Every minute, 10 hours of videos are uploaded on YouTube.
44. There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people using the Internet.
45. Among 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.
46. 70% of virus writers work under contract for organized crime syndicates.
47.  ‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word which can be typed with only the left hand.
48. Mosaic was the first popular web browser which was released in 1993.
49. Of the 247 BILLION email messages sent every day, 81% are pure spam.
50. 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.
51.  In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator*.
52. 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.
53. The domain name www.youtube.com was registered on February 14, 2005.
54. Computer programming is currently one of the fastest growing occupations.
55. Over 6,000 computer viruses are released each month