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21 Facts About Technology Which Will Amuse You

21 Facts About Technology Which Will Amuse You. This General Computer
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(Facts-1) Over 6,000 new computer viruses are released every month.
(Facts-2) The first computer mouse, constructed in 1964, was made out of wood.(by
Doug Engelbart)
(Facts-3) The average human being blinks 20 times a minute but only 7 times a
minute when using a computer.
(Facts-4) The first electro-mechanical computer was developed in 1939.
(Facts-5) By the end of 2012 there will be 17 billion devices connected to the internet.
(Facts-6) The worlds 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.
(Facts-7) Over 1 million domain names are registered every month.
(Facts-8) With its 800 million interent users, Facebook would be the third largest
country in the World.
(Facts-9) The first hard drive was created in 1979 and could hold 5MB of data.
(Facts-10) The nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra video card contains 222 million transistors.
(Facts-11) 20% of online viruses are released by organized crime units.
(Facts-12) The engineers who developed the IBM PC were known as The Dirty Dozen
(Facts-13) A program named Rother J was the first computer virus to come into
sight in the wild that is, outside the single computer or lab where it was created.
(Facts-14) The first popular web browser was called Mosaic and was released
in 1993.
(Facts-15) There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.
(Facts-16) The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
(Facts-17) The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
(Facts-18) The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around
1964 and was made of wood.
(Facts-19) Eighty percent of the Top 10 global Internet properties -- including Facebook,
Google, and Twitter -- are from companies headquartered in the United States.
However, 81 percent of their combined web visitors hail from elsewhere.

(Facts-20) Motorola introduced the first commercial mobile phone in the US in 1983.
The DynaTAC 800x was retailed at $3,995.
(Facts-21) Bill Gates house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
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