company, now sells more e-books than
printed books.
2. The first domain name ever registered
was Symbolics.com.
3. 80% of all pictures on the internet are of
Unclad women
4. Tim Berners-Lee coined the phrase
“World Wide Web†in 1990.
5. U.S. President Bill Clinton’s inauguration
in January 1997 was the first to be
webcast.
6.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.
7. Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was
a college drop out.
8. Bill Gates house was designed Using a
Macintosh computer.
9. About 1.8 billion people connect to the
Internet, only 450 million of them speak
English.
10. In 2012, approximately 17 billion devices
(which includes computers, tablets and
mobile) connected to the Internet.
11. Sweden has the highest percentage of
internet users, they are 75%.
12. Did you know that Email was already
around before the World Wide Web came?
13. Up until the 14th of September, 1995,
domain registration was free.
14. 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.
15. One out of every 8 married couples in
the USA (2011), met online.
16. 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.
17. There are about five Indecency pages
for every ‘normal’ web-page.
18. 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.
19. Doug Engelbart had made the first
computer mouse in 1964, and it was made
out of wood.
20. Every minute, 10 hours of videos are
uploaded on Youtube.
21. The world’s first computer which was
named 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.
22. There are approximately 1,319,872,109
people using the Internet.
23. 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.
24. While it took the radio 38 years, and
the televisiona short 13 years, it took the
World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50
million users.
25. 70% of virus writers work under
contract for organized crime syndicates.
26. A program named “Rother J†was the
first computer virus to come into sight “in
the wild†— that is, outside the single
computer or lab where it was created.
27. 'Stewardesses' is the longest word
which can be typed with only the left hand.
28. Mosaic was the first popular web
browser which was released in 1993.
29. Of the 247 BILLION email messages
sent every day, 81% are pure spam.
30. The first White House website was
launched during the Clinton-Gore
administration on October 21, 1994.
Coincidentally, the site www.whitehouse.com
linked to a Indecency web site.
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