COMPUTER FACTS



The first computer mouse was invented in 1964 by a man names Doug Engelbart and it was made of wood.

Approximately 6,000 new computer viruses released every month.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Facebook pays at least $500 if you can find a way to hack the site.

Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.


The first ever video that was uploaded on Youtube is by Jawed Karim (one of youtube founders) titled "Me at zoo" on April 23rd, 2005. This video is all of 18 seconds long.

Sony introduced the 3.5 inch floppy in 1981

On June 17,1980 Atari's 'Asteroids' and 'Lunar Lander' were the first two video games to ever be registered in the Copy right office.


The first all-computer chess championship was held in New York in 1970, and was won by CHESS 3.0 - a program written by Slate, Atkin and Gorlen at Northwestern University, Illinois


Starcraft is the first computer game to be played in space. It was sent on shuttle mission STS-96 back in 1999 by Daniel T. Barry, a mission specialist


April 30, 1993 is an important date for the Web because on that day, CERN announced that anyone may use WWW technology freely


One million domain names are registered every month!!!

Bit torrents, depending on location, are estimated to consume 27 to 55 per cent of all internet bandwidth as of February 2009

Someone is a victim of a cybercrime every 10 seconds, and it is on the rise.


In the 1950s computers were commonly referred to as "electronic brains"


Lenovo stands for "new legend" . It's an amalgamation of the words "Le" for Legend and "novo" for new.

The first 1 GB hard drive was sold in 1950s, weighed 250 kg and cost about $40,000. Imagined carry that bad boy in your back pack

, the Macintosh was released in 1984. It was the first commercially successful personal computer to have a graphical user interface and a mouse.

A study by Dell some time ago claimed that 12,000 laptops go lost, missing or are stolen each week in the US


The most expensive laptop in the world costs a whopping 1 million 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



The first computer mouse was invented in 1964 by a man names Doug Engelbart and it was made of wood.

Approximately 6,000 new computer viruses released every month.

Only 2% of the current Linux kernel written by Linus Torvalds.

The Linux kernel version is written in the programming language C.

The first commercial distribution GNU / Linux was Yggdrasil was launched Lice-CD format in 1992. Red Hat was one of the first distributions to settle within companies and data centers in 1999.

90% of the world’s most powerful supercomputers using an operating system GNU / Linux, in fact, the top ten of supercomputers use Linux. In fact, the penetration of Linux in data centers is very high, 33.8% of the world runs on Linux servers compared to 7.3% does so in a Microsoft operating system.

Linux is present in highly critical applications such as Japan’s bullet trains, traffic control, San Francisco, the New York Stock Exchange, CERN, many air traffic control systems or control of nuclear reactors of submarines and ships many nuclear war.

The Linux kernel is now the most widely ported operating system, running on a great variety of operating systems.

World known companies such as Google, Cisco, Facebook, Twitter, Linked in etc use Linux as their main operating system.


Google is a version of the word Googol, which is the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes, representing the large number of web pages Google searches.

It was discovered that nobody can create a FOLDEr anywhere on the computer which can be named as “CON”. This is something pretty cool…and unbelievable. .. At Microsoft the whole Team, couldn’t answer why this happened! TRY IT NOW ,IT WILL NOT CREATE ” CON ” FOLDER.

Type the following in MS word: =rand (200, 99) and let's see what happens! This is something pretty cool and neat…and unbelievable. .. At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn’t answer why this happened! It was discovered by a Brazilian. Try it out.

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


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.

The domain name www.youtube.com was registered on February 14, 2005.

The Dvorak keyboard is more efficient than QWERTY. 20 times faster, in fact.


First ever microprocessor by Intel was “4004”.

Micral N was the first personal computer built on Intel processor 8008. This personal computer was built in 1972 and more than 90,000 units were sold.


First hard disk drive was introduced by Seagate in 1979, which could hold 5 M.B. of data.

First computer virus was written by Farooq Alvi brothers (Basit Farooq Alvi & Amjad Farooq Alvi) in 1986. Though some other people say that it was written even before. Alvi brothers wrote this virus to protect their research work.

First Computer Company to register domain name was “Digital Equipment Corporation”.

HP (Hewlett Packard) was started at agarage in Palo Alto in 1939.

QWERTY keyboard sequence is more 130 years old.


Largest four software making Companies are:
Microsoft
Adobe
Sap
Computer Associates

 1,693,000 terabytes of information are produced and stored per year.

 Maximum numbers of transistors on a chip are on nVidia GeFore 6800 Ultra, which contains 222 million of them.

 First ISP was “CompuServe” which was set up in 1969. This ISP is now an acquisition of AOL.

 “The Dirty Dozen” is the name of 12 engineers who designed IBM PC.

 It could take more than the age of universe to crack a 128 bit SSL encrypted message.

 Windows 95 can run on a 20 MHz 386DX and 4 MB of RAM.

[Ctrl] + [Alt] + [Delete] sequence was written by “David Bradley”.


Type "google gravity" and then click "I'm feeling lucky" on Google, the entire page will lose it's gravity!! Though you can still search on it and play with the webpage!!
no. of Years it took to reach a market audience of 50 Million-
Radio- 38 years Television- 13 years
Internet- 4 years
I pod- 3 years
"FACEBOOK"- Just 2 years

Try making a folder named either of the following "prn , aux , nul , con" in Windows on your desktop!!
Open MS word type “=rand(200,99)” (excluding quotes) and hit Enter!!

In 2008, the United States consumed 3.6 zettabytes of information. One zettabyte is equal to a BILLION TRILLION bytes. We can’t even…process…how much information that would be! The University of California San Diego calculated that the average American brain goes through 34 gigabytes of information on a daily basis. That’s more than two iPod nanos worth of info per day

Bill gates house was designed using a MACINTOSH computer



the first domain ever registered was symbolics.com

worlds first ever computer was called Z1 and was completed in the year 1936

The "Love Hurts" virus hit in spring 2000 and infected affected millions of computers and caused more damage than any other computer virus to date. Users were infected via e-mail, through Internet chat systems, and through other shared file systems. The worm sent copies of itself via Microsoft Outlook's address book entries. The mail included an executable file attachment with the e-mail subject line, "ILOVEYOU." The worm had the ability to overwrite several types of files, including .gif and .jpg files. It modified the Internet Explorer start page and changed Registry keys. It also moved other files and hid MP3 files on affected systems

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