Cuddalore Computer Education: Computer Parts With Fun

Computer Interesting Facts!

• The domain name www.youtube.com was registered on February 14, 2005.
• If you opened up the case of the original Macintosh, you will find 47 signatures. One for each member of Apple’s Macintosh divison as of 1982.
• Computer programming is currently one of the fastest growing occupations.
• On an average work day, a typist’s fingers travel 12.6 miles.
• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

• “Stewardesses” is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Bill Gates’ house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
• Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was a college drop out.
• The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
• Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is ‘Crash Course’!
• Dell’s first advertisement was made on the back of a pizza box.
• Yahoo! was originally called ‘Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web’.
• Steve Jobs’ annual salary was $1, just enough to keep company health benefits.
• The most productive day of the workweek is Tuesday.
•  Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was a college drop out.
• ❖ On one of the world's most popular shopping websites, eBay, there are transactions of approx. $680 per second.
• ❖ There are approx. 6,000 new computer viruses released every month.
• ❖ Of all the pictures available over the Internet, 80 percent of these pictures are of naked women.
• ❖ 'Crash Course' is another name for Microsoft Windows tutorials.
• ❖ The 'Email' is older than the World Wide Web.
• ❖ There are about five porn pages for every 'normal' webpage.
• ❖ Doug Engelbart, invented the first computer mouse in the year 1964, which was made of wood!
• ❖ 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.
• ❖ 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.
• ❖ Amongst the most interesting computer facts is, the first Apple computer which was built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, was made by using parts they got for free from their employers. They were made to scrounge spare parts from work.
• ❖ If you want to get a computer aquarium, then you must get the Macquariums, which are aquariums made from old Macintosh computers.
• ❖ 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 the Farooq Alvi brothers. It was designed by them to protect their research work.
• ❖ The group of 12 engineers who designed the IBM PC were called 'The Dirty Dozen'.
• ❖ The quintessential command 'Ctrl+Alt+Delete' was written by David Bradley.
• ❖ Amazon is a printed book seller company, that now sells more eBooks than printed books.
• ❖ Over 110 million users are registered on MySpace. If MySpace was a country, it would be tenth largest in the world, while Facebook would be third largest with over a billion users.
• ❖ About 70% virus writers are actually employed by an organization under a contract.
• ❖ HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple have one thing in common. All of them were started in garages.
• ❖ The Apollo 11 Lunar Lander which was used to travel to the moon, has less processing power than the processor of a cell phone.
• ❖ Out of the 1.8 billion Internet users, only 450 million can speak English.
• ❖ In 2011, one out of every eight married couples had met online.
• ❖ The first 1GB hard disk, announced in 1980, weighed about 550 pounds, and was priced at $40,000.
• ❖ On a Qwerty keypad, Alaska is the only state that can be typed using one row of keys.
• Computer Facts For Kids
• ❖ A normal human being blinks 20 times a minute, whereas, a computer user blinks only 7 times a minute!
• ❖ The house of Bill Gates was designed using a Macintosh computer.
• ❖ Sweden is a country with the highest percentage of Internet users (75%).
• ❖ 'Mosaic' was the first popular web browser, released in the year 1993.
• ❖ I am sure 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.
• ❖ 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.
• ❖ Computer circuitry can be destroyed by static electricity. It is so mild for humans that we don't even feel it.
• ❖ The Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra chip has maximum numbers of transistors on it, approx. 222 million of them.
• ❖ 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.
• ❖ 'Stewardesses' is the longest word which can be typed with only the left hand.
• ❖ Today, we find hard drives up to 1TB, but did you know, the first hard drive was created in 1979, and could hold just 5MB of data.
• ❖ Interface Manager! That's what Windows was originally named.
• ❖ 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.
• ❖ If you find a way to hack Facebook, the company will pay you $500. Hackers, go for it.
• ❖ The first microprocessor, Intel's 4004, was designed for the Busicom calculator.
• ❖ Lenovo stands for 'new legend'. 'Le' for legend, and 'novo' stands for new.
• ❖ Symbolics.com was the first ever domain name to be registered.
• ❖ 80% of the emails sent daily are spammy.
• ❖ SanDisk was earlier known as SunDisk.
• ❖ Until September 1995, domain registration was free.
• ❖ 'Electronic brains'! That's what computers were called in the 1950s.
• ❖ One can type 20 times faster using a Dvorak keyboard as compared to using a Qwerty keyboard.
• ❖ COBOL language was developed by the first female admiral in the US Navy, Admiral Grace Hopper.
• ❖ 'ShenMue' is the most expensive game ever to be made. It was developed for Sega Dreamcast, and was priced at $20 million.