30 Computer Facts I Bet You Didn’t Know 1. Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is ‘Crash Course’! 2. Bill Gates house was designed using a Macintosh computer. 3. By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet. 4. Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month. 5. E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web. 6. In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn’t considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator. 7. MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico. 8. One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online. 9. 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. 10. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20 11. The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood. 12. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics. 13. 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. 14. There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet. 15. There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide. 16. 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. 17. 20.70% of virus writers work under contract for organized crime syndicates. 18. Country with the highest percentage of net users is Sweden (75%). 19. The first popular web browser was called Mosaic and was released in 1993. 20. Amazon, originally a printed book seller company, now sells more e-books than printed books. 21. The first two video games copyrighted in the U.S. were Asteroids and Lunar Lander in 1980. 22. U.S. President Bill Clinton’s inauguration in January 1997 was the first to be webcast. 23. 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. 24. Up until the 14th of September, 1995, domain registration was free. 25. Every minute, 10 hours of videos are uploaded on YouTube. 26. Over 6,000 new computer viruses are released every month. 27. The first computer mouse, constructed in 1964, was made out of wood. 28. With it’s 800 million interent users, Facebook would be the third largest country in the World. 29. The first hard drive was created in 1979 and could hold 5MB of data. 30. If history had been tweaked slightly, it’s possible that we would all be sitting in cubicles with weird headpieces attached to our faces (OK, weirder headpieces attached to our faces). One of Englebart’s prototypes suggested using a tracking device based on head movements instead of manual mouse clicking, but the mouse was ultimately more convenient to use. No kidding.
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