Saturday, September 29

Computer and Internet Related Fun Facts.

Who knew that...

  •  On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
  • TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
  • There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.
  • 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.
  • MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.
  • 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.
  • There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.
  • Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
  • Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
  • The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
  • Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.
  • Hewlett Packard ( the HP pioneer) was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
  • The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.


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