The advancements in Technology together with its incredible history is something to really marvel at. Below is a list of some interesting technology facts and some history of technology and the web that you might not know.
Technology and Computer Facts
- Over 6,000 new computer viruses are released every month.
- The first computer was almost 2.5 metres high and weighed nearly 30,000kg
- The average human being blinks 20 times a minute – but only 7 times a minute when using a computer.
- Computers were called “Electronic Brains in the 1950s.
- The first electro-mechanical computer was developed in 1939.
- 5 out of every 6 internet pages are porn-related.
- Over 1 million domain names are registered every month.
- There are more than 5000 new computer viruses are released every month
- With its 800 million internet users, Facebook would be the third-largest country in the World.
- The first hard drive was created in 1979 and could hold 5MB of data.
- Currently, the worlds largest hard drive is a 60TB SSD.
- Technophobia is the fear of technology, Nomophobia is the fear of being without a mobile phone, Cyberphobia is the fear of computers.
- 20% of online viruses are released by organised crime units.
- The engineers who developed the IBM PC were known as “The Dirty Dozen”
- Email was invented before the web; which means that it has been around longer.
- The home of Bill Gates was designed with the use of a Macintosh Computer.
- The original Macintosh case which was created during the year of 1982, contains 47 signatures of the division of Apple’s Macintosh members.
- The original name of Windows was Interface Manager.
- Doug Engelhard invented the very first computer mouse which was made out of wood. He created it in 1964.
- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that you can write using the letters only on one row of the keyboard of your computer.
- On a regular workday for a typist, their fingers travel at an average rate of about 12.6 miles per day.
- The state of Alaska is the only state whose letters can be typed in a straight row of keyboard letters.
- Ebay has about $680 worth of transactions that take place per second.
- There are more than one million domain names that are registered online per month.
- Apple, Microsoft, HP, and Google are all IT applications that started development in a garage.
- The social media website Myspace has about 110 million registered users. If the social media site had been considered a country it would be the 10th largest; right after Mexico.
- com was registered on February 14th, 2005.
- The Dvorak keyboard is known to be more efficient and 20 times faster than Qwerty.
- Computer programming is an occupation that is growing faster than any other.
- The first online advertisement banner was created and used in the year of 1994.
- Hewlett Packard, which is more known as HP, was invented in a garage in Palo Alto during the year of 1939.
- Lenovo stands for ‘new legend’. ‘Le’ for legend, and ‘novo’ stands for new.
- Out of the 1.8 billion Internet users, only 450 million can speak English.
- As of this year, there are currently over 17 billion devices that are connected or related to the internet and the use of the internet.
- When signing up to iTunes, if you accept their Terms & Conditions, you agree to not use it to make nuclear weapons.
- About 1 out of 8 couples met their spouse on the internet within the past few years. There are more people meeting their significant others online each year.
- More than 80% of the emails sent daily are spams.
- 1024 Gigabytes is equal to 1 Terabyte. 1024 Terabytes is equal to 1 Petabyte, and 1 Petabyte can hold 13.3 years of HD-TV video.
- If you are able to find a way to hack into Facebook then they will pay you up to $500.
- There are about 1 billion instant messenger accounts that are active around the world today.
