We would like to share some kool tech facts with you
while we build are data Library:-
(1). An Amd
1400 chip running without a heatsink gets as hot as 370
degrees.
(2). Seagate introduced the first hdd
for pcs in 1979.It held 5 M.B of data.
(3). If u
opened up the case of the original Macintosh, u will
find 47 signatures
one for each member of Apple's
Macintosh divison as of 1982.
(4). The first
computer company to register for a domain name was
digital
equipment corporation.
(5). Did u know
Apple & Sun came very close to a merger in 1996.
(6). The technology contained in a single game boy unit
in 2000 exceeds all
the computing power that was used
to put the first man on moon in 1969.
(7).
Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in
1939.
8).Tetris has sold over 40 million copies
worldwide, since it began in 1982.That provided the
creator 800 million in revenues.
9).The superflop
(LOL!) sega dreamcast, released in 1999, was the first
console game machine to sport a 128 Bit architecture.
10).The most expensive game ever developed was "ShenMue"
for sega dreamcast.It costs $20 million.
11).The
QWERTY keyboard layout is 129 years old.
12).South korea's SK telecom offers an inaudible ring
tone to its customers which, it claims, can repel
mosquitoes.
13).In 1971, the first speech
recognition software named, "Hearsay" was developed in
India.
14).Macquariums are aquariams made from
old macintosh computers
15).When
the cd was invented, it was decided that a cd should be
long
enough to hold beethoven's Ninth Symphony at
any tempo which was
precisely 72 minutes.
16).Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is
'Crash Course'
17).Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh
computer.
18).By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17
billion devices connected to the Internet.
19).Domain names are being registered at a rate of more
than one million names every month.
20).E-mail
has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
21).For
every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.
22).In
the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100 percent
compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight
Simulator*.
23).MySpace
reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a
country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind
Mexico.
24).One
of every 8 married couples in the US last year met
online.
25).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.
26).The
average computer user blinks 7 times a minute,
less than half the normal rate of 20.
27).The
first banner advertising was used in 1994.
28).The first computer mouse
was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and
was made of wood.
29).The first domain name ever
registered was Symbolics.com.
30).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.
31).There are approximately
1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.
32).There are approximately
1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.
33).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
