Monday, April 27, 2009

Computer Facts

Pass your time with this interesting


# 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women
#Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'!
#Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
#By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.
#Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.
#E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
#For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.
#In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator*.
#MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.
#One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.
#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.
#The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.
#The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
#The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
#The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
#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.
#There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.
#There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.
#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.

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