Interesting 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.com.

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.