A normal human being blinks 20 times a minute, whereas, a computer user blinks only 7 times a minute! ☺
❖ The house of Bill Gates was designed using a Macintosh computer. ☻
❖ Sweden is a country with the highest percentage of Internet users (75%) ♥
❖ 'Mosaic' was the first popular web browser, released in the year 1993. ♦
❖ I am sure most of us must have played the game Tetris. Since the time it was created in the early eighties, it has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, which made its creator richer by $8m. ♣
❖ 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. ♠
❖ Computer circuitry can be destroyed by static electricity. It is so mild for humans that we don't even feel it. •
❖ The Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra chip has maximum numbers of transistors on it, approx. 222 million of them. ◘
❖ Konrad Zuse, has the credit of creating the world's first computer, known as the Z1, in 1936. Three years later, in the year 1939, the first fully-functioning electro-mechanical computer, known as Z2, was developed ○
❖ 'Stewardesses' is the longest word which can be typed with only the left hand. ◙
❖ Today, we find hard drives up to 1TB, but did you know, the first hard drive was created in 1979, and could hold just 5MB of data. ♀
❖ Interface Manager! That's what Windows was originally named. ♂
❖ If your work involves the extensive use of computers, then by the end of your average working day, your fingers would have traveled 12.6 miles. ♪
❖ If you find a way to hack Facebook, the company will pay you $500. Hackers, go for it. ♫
❖ The first microprocessor, Intel's 4004, was designed for the Busicom calculator. ☼
❖ Lenovo stands for 'new legend'. 'Le' for legend, and 'novo' stands for new ►
❖ Symbolics.com was the first ever domain name to be registered. ◄
❖ 80% of the emails sent daily are spammy. ↕
❖ SanDisk was earlier known as SunDisk ‼
❖ Until September 1995, domain registration was free. ¶
❖ 'Electronic brains'! That's what computers were called in the 1950s §
❖ One can type 20 times faster using a Dvorak keyboard as compared to using a Qwerty keyboard. ▬
❖ COBOL language was developed by the first female admiral in the US Navy, Admiral Grace Hopper. ↨
❖ 'ShenMue' is the most expensive game ever to be made. It was developed for Sega Dreamcast, and was priced at $20 million
❖ The house of Bill Gates was designed using a Macintosh computer. ☻
❖ Sweden is a country with the highest percentage of Internet users (75%) ♥
❖ 'Mosaic' was the first popular web browser, released in the year 1993. ♦
❖ I am sure most of us must have played the game Tetris. Since the time it was created in the early eighties, it has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, which made its creator richer by $8m. ♣
❖ 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. ♠
❖ Computer circuitry can be destroyed by static electricity. It is so mild for humans that we don't even feel it. •
❖ The Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra chip has maximum numbers of transistors on it, approx. 222 million of them. ◘
❖ Konrad Zuse, has the credit of creating the world's first computer, known as the Z1, in 1936. Three years later, in the year 1939, the first fully-functioning electro-mechanical computer, known as Z2, was developed ○
❖ 'Stewardesses' is the longest word which can be typed with only the left hand. ◙
❖ Today, we find hard drives up to 1TB, but did you know, the first hard drive was created in 1979, and could hold just 5MB of data. ♀
❖ Interface Manager! That's what Windows was originally named. ♂
❖ If your work involves the extensive use of computers, then by the end of your average working day, your fingers would have traveled 12.6 miles. ♪
❖ If you find a way to hack Facebook, the company will pay you $500. Hackers, go for it. ♫
❖ The first microprocessor, Intel's 4004, was designed for the Busicom calculator. ☼
❖ Lenovo stands for 'new legend'. 'Le' for legend, and 'novo' stands for new ►
❖ Symbolics.com was the first ever domain name to be registered. ◄
❖ 80% of the emails sent daily are spammy. ↕
❖ SanDisk was earlier known as SunDisk ‼
❖ Until September 1995, domain registration was free. ¶
❖ 'Electronic brains'! That's what computers were called in the 1950s §
❖ One can type 20 times faster using a Dvorak keyboard as compared to using a Qwerty keyboard. ▬
❖ COBOL language was developed by the first female admiral in the US Navy, Admiral Grace Hopper. ↨
❖ 'ShenMue' is the most expensive game ever to be made. It was developed for Sega Dreamcast, and was priced at $20 million