30 Interesting Facts You May Not Know

1.  Amazon, originally a printed book seller company, now sells more e­books than
printed books.
2.  The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.

3.  About 1.8 billion people connect to the Internet, only 450 million of them speak
English.
4.  Sweden has the highest percentage of internet users, they are 75%.

5.  Did you know that Email was already around before the World Wide Web came?

6.  Up until the 14th of September, 1995, domain registration was free.
7.  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.
8.  U.S. President Bill Clinton’s inauguration in January 1997 was the first to be
webcast.
9.  Every minute, 10 hours of videos are uploaded on You Tube.
10.  Of the 247 BILLION email messages sent every day, 81% are pure spam.
11.  The first White House website was launched during the Clinton­Gore Data Structure Notes
administration on October 21, 1994. Coincidentally, the site
www.whitehouse.com linked to a pornography web site.
12.  Over 1 million domain names are registered every month.
13.  With It’s 800 million Interent users, Facebook would be the third largest country
in the World. The first computer company to register for a domain name was
digital equipment corporation.
14.  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.
15.  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 Blu­Ray disks.
16.  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.
17.  Doug Engelbart had made the first computer mouse in 1964, and it was made out
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18.  The first hard drive was created in 1979 by Seagate and could hold 5MB of data.
19.  The engineers who developed the IBM PC were known as “The Dirty Dozen”
20.  Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is ‘Crash Course’!
21.  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.
22.  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 electro­mechanical computer.
23.  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.
24.  The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
25.  Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was a college drop out. 26.  Bill Gates house was designed Using a Macintosh computer.
27.  Bill Gates math SAT score was a perfect 800. and GATE. Recruitments News are
28.  Bill gates & Paul Allen started a company called Traf­O­Data to monitor traffic flow.
29.  70% of virus writers work under contract for organized crime syndicates.
30.  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.