Interesting Facts You May Not Know About Computers & The Internet 1. Sweden has the highest percentage of internet users, they are 75%. 2. 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. 3. One out of every 8 married couples in the USA (2011), met online. 4. 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. 5. 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.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 07:51:49 +0000
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