Tuesday 21 May 2013

Here are some awesome facts about computing and it's origin !!!

here are some awesome facts about computing and it's origin...



1.Bill Gates, the founder of
Microsoft was a college drop out.

2.On one of the world's most
popular shopping website eBay,
there are transactions of approx.
$680 per second.

3.There are approx. 6,000 new
computer viruses released every
month.

4.Of all the pictures available
over the internet, 80 percent of
these pictures are of naked
women.

5.'Crash Course' is another name
for Microsoft Windows tutorials.

6.The E-mail is older than the
World Wide Web.

7.There are about five porn pages
for every 'normal' web-page.

8.Doug Engelbart, invented the
first computer mouse in the year
1964 and was made up of wood!

9.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.

10.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.

11.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.

12.If you want to get a computer
aquarium, then you must get the
Macquariums which are
aquariums made from old
Macintosh computers.

13.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.

14.The group of 12 engineers who
designed IBM PC were called "The
Dirty Dozen".
The quintessential command 'Ctrl
+Alt+Delete' was written by David
Bradley.

15.A normal human being blinks
20 times in a minute, whereas a
computer user blinks only 7 times
a minute! One of the best
interesting computer facts.

16.The house of Bill Gates was
designed using a Macintosh
computer.

17.Sweden is a country with the
highest percentage of Internet
users (75%).

18.'Mosaic' was the first popular
web browser released in the year
1993.

19.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 its creator richer by
$8m.

20.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.

21.Computer circuitry can be
destroyed by static electricity, it
is so mild for humans that they
don't even feel it.

22.The Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra
chip has maximum numbers of
transistors on it, approx. 222
million of them.

23.Konrad Zuse, has the credit of
creating world's first computer
known as the Z1 in 1936. Three
years later in the year 1939, was
when the first fully functioning
elector-mechanical computer,
known as Z2 was developed.

24.'Stewardesses' is the longest
word which can be typed with
only the left hand....

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