Interesting Computer Facts

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  1. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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  2. Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
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  3. 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.
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  4. There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.
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  5. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

All Computer Facts

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  1. Facebook pays at least $500 if you can find a way to hack the site.
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  2. 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.
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  3. Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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  4. The domain name www.youtube.com was registered on February 14, 2005.
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  5. Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
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  6. 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.
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  7. Computer programming is currently one of the fastest growing occupations.
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  8. On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
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  9. The Dvorak keyboard is more efficient than QWERTY. 20 times faster, in fact.
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  10. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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  11. On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.
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  12. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
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  13. 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women
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  14. In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator*.
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  15. 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.
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  16. The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
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  17. Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.
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  18. There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.
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  19. The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
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  20. E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
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  223

  

  74

  21. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.
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  231

  

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  22. One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.
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  207

  

  94

  23. 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.
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  209

  

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  24. By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.
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  25. MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.
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  26. 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.
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  595

  

  183

  27. There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.
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  304

  

  141

  28. For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.
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  29. Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
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  109

  30. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
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  31. Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'!