What is a Computer?
A computer is an electronic device that manipulates information, or "data." It has the ability to store, retrieve, and process data. You can use a computer to type documents, send email, and browse the internet. You can also use it to handle spreadsheets, accounting, database management, presentations, games, and more. Here are interesting, amazing and fun facts about computer:-
1. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
2. 20% of online viruses are released by organized crime units.
3. 5 out of every 6 internet pages are porn related.
4. 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women
5. A study by Dell some time ago claimed that 12,000 laptops go lost, missing or are stolen each week in the US .
6. About 85% of microwave radiation emitted by a cellphone is absorbed by your head.
7. According to the records, the first “banner advertising was used in 1994″.
8. According to the UNEP(United Nations Environmental Programme), each year, the world generates 20 million to 50 million metric tons of e waste
9. Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
10. Almost all computer users must know how destructive a virus can be. But then, it would be interesting to know that a virus cannot corrupt your PC on its own. It corrupts your system only when you activate it by either downloading infected files from the internet or by sharing these infected files.
11. Although the iPod started selling in 2001 it wasn’t until 1.5 years later that Apple sold a Windows compatible iPod – the second generation iPod
12. Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is ‘Crash Course’.
13. Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was a college drop out.
14. By the end of 2012 there will be 17 billion devices connected to the internet.
15. By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the internet.
16. Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
17. Co-founder of Intel Gordon Moore is widely known for “Moore’s Law,” in which he predicted that the number of transistors the industry would be able to place on a computer chip would double every year.
18. Computer circuitry can be destroyed by static electricity, it is so mild for humans that they don’t even feel it.
19. Computer programming is currently one of the fastest growing occupations.
20. Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than 1 million names every month.
21. The first domain name ever sold was “Symbolics.com” and was registered on 15th March 1985.
22. E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
23. Ever wondered where the ubiquitous Laptop came from?
24. Facebook pays at least $500 if you can find a way to hack the site.
25. For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.
26. Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
27. HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple have one thing in common – apart from the obvious that they are IT companies. They were all started in garages.
28. I am sure most of us must have played the game Tetris. Since the time it was created in early eighties, it has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, which made it’s creator richer by $8m.
29. If you opened up the case of the original Macintosh, you will find 47 signatures. One for each member of Apple's Macintosh divison as of 1982.
30. If you want to get a computer aquarium, then you must get the Macquariums which are aquariums made from old Macintosh computers.
31. In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn’t considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator.
32. It is believed that the first computer virus released in the world was a boot sector virus, which was created in the year 1986 by Farooq Alvi brothers. It was designed by them to protect their research work.
33. It is believed that the Laptop’s great granddaddy was the Gavilan SC, a truly portable computer introduced back in 1983
34. Lastly, If you want computer aquarium, then you can happily have a “Macquarium”. Macquarium is actually built with old Mac Computers.
35. It’s surprising but Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, while Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T
36. MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.
37. One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.
38. Over 1 million domain names are registered every month.
39. On eBay, there is an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.
40. Over 6,000 new computer viruses are released every month.
41. Second weird thing is that, Bill Gates (Dad of Microsoft) house was designed using Macintosh.
42. On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
43. Sweden is a country with the highest percentage of internet users (75 per cent).
44. 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.
45. The average human being blinks 20 times a minute – but only 7 times a minute when using a computer.
46. The domain name www.youtube.com was registered on February 14, 2005.
47. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.
48. The Dvorak keyboard is more efficient than QWERTY 20 times faster, in fact.
49. The engineers who developed the IBM PC were known as “The Dirty Dozen”.
50. The first 1 GB hard drive was sold in 1950s, weighed 250 kg and cost about $40,000. Imagine carrying that bad boy in your back pack.
51. The first Apple II computers that went on sale in 1977 had 1MHz processor speed and 4kB of RAM Named after the McIntosh variety of Apples, the first Macintosh was released in 1984. It was the first commercially successful personal computer to have a graphical user interface and a mouse
52. The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
53. The first computer mouse was invented around 1964 by Doug Engelbart and it is made of “Wood”.
54. The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
55. The first computer mouse, constructed in 1964, was made out of wood.
56. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
57. The first electro-mechanical computer was developed in 1939.
58. The first hard drive was created in 1979 and could hold 5MB of data.
59. The group of 12 engineers who designed IBM PC were called as “The Dirty Dozen”.
60. The most expensive laptop in the world costs a whopping 1 milion dollars and is produced by Luvaglio, the luxury technology makes from London. Reportedly only one is ever going to be made and in typical fashion is going to be encrusted with all sorts of precious metals and gems.
61. The nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra video card contains 222 million transistors.
62. The other name of Microsoft Windows Tutorial is “Crash Course”.
63. The quintessential command ‘Ctrl+Alt+Delete’ was written by David Bradley.
64. 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.
65. The worst MS-DOS virus ever, Michelangelo (1991) was so named because it activated itself on March 6, the birth day of the famous renaissance painter. The virus attacked the boot sector of hard drives and any floppy drive inserted into a computer. Upon activation it destroyed data.
66. There are approx. 6,000 new computer viruses released every month.
67. There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the internet.
68. There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.
69. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
70. You've heard of computer bugs right? Minor glitches in code that hamper smooth operation. But in 1947, when a computer (Harvard Mark 1) was running a test of it’s multiplier and adder function engineers noticed something was wrong despite rechecking everything. On further investigation engineers found a moth in Panel F, Relay #70 of the system. The moth was trapped, removed and taped into the computer’s logbook with the words: “first actual case of a bug being found.”
71. 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.
72. With it’s 800 million internet users, Facebook would be the third largest country in the World.
73. You know that the team of 12 engineers who built IBM pc were called “The Dirty Dozen”.
