Some Interesting Computer Facts ....
(1). An Amd 1400 chip running without a heatsink gets as hot as 370 degrees.
(2). Seagate introduced the first hdd for pcs in 1979.It held 5 M.B of data.
(3). If u opened up the case of the original Macintosh, u will find 47 signatures
one for each member of Apple's Macintosh divison as of 1982.
(4). The first computer company to register for a domain name was
digital equipment corporation.
(5). Did u know Apple & Sun came very close to a merger in 1996.
(6). The technology contained in a single game boy unit in 2000 exceeds all
the computing power that was used to put the first man on moon in 1969.
(7). Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
(8).Tetris has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, since it began in 1982.That provided the
creator 800 million in revenues.
(9).The superflop (LOL!) sega dreamcast, released in 1999, was the first console game
machine to sport a 128 Bit architecture.
(10).The most expensive game ever developed was "ShenMue" for sega dreamcast.It costs $20 million.
(11).The QWERTY keyboard layout is 129 years old.
(12).South korea's SK telecom offers an inaudible ring tone to its customers which, it claims,
can repel mosquitoes.
(13).In 1971, the first speech recognition software named, "Hearsay" was developed in India.
(14).Macquariums are aquariams made from old macintosh computers.
(15).Bill gates & Paul Allen started a company called Traf-O-Data to monitor traffic flow.
(16).The four largest software makers in the world are:-
(a) Microsoft
(b) Adobe
(c) Sap
(d) Computer Associates.
(17)Top Ten Supercomputers of Today:-
Arranged according to the speed:-
1. Bluegene/L DD2 Beta-system(IBM).
2. Columbia (NASA).
3. Earth Simulator (NEC).
4. MareNostrum(Barcelona Supercomputer Center).
5. Thunder (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory).
6. ASCI Q(Los Alamos National Laboratory).
7. System X(Virgina Tech).
8. Blugene/L DD1 Prototype(IBM).
9. eServer pSeries 655 cluster(Naval Oceanographic Office).
10.Tungsten(National Center For Supercomputing Applications).
(18). According to university of california 1,693,000 terabytes of information are
produced & stored magnetically per year.
(19).Hard drives in the near future are expected to have a track density of about
100,000 tracks/inch.This means that tracks are spaced 10 millionths of an inch apart.
(20).One terabyte(1000 gigabytes) is equivalent to storing a stack of documents that is more
than 16 times the height of New York's empire state building.
(21). The 4004 was the first microprocessor of intel.
(22). The nVidia GeForce 6800 ultra has 222 million transistors which is the record for the
max. no. transistors on a chip.
(23). James Gosling created java at sun microsystems.He came up with the name Java while
debating over it at a coffee shop.
(24). The first ISP was Compuserve, established in 1969 which is now under AOL.
(25). The Palm O.S fits in less than 100 K,which is less than one percent the size of
Windows 98 or Mac O.S.
(26). What does 50 G.B of storage really mean?It means we can stack 3 piles of single spaced type
written pages taller than the Eiffel tower and data to support this information is about 50
gigabytes.
(27). The code name for the 12 engineers who designed the IBM pc was :- 'The dirty dozen'.
(28). When the cd was invented, it was decided that a cd should be long enough to hold
beethoven's Ninth Symphony at any tempo which was precisely 72 minutes.
(29). 128 bit SSL encryption is so strong that it would take much , much longer than the age
of universe to crack a message encrypted using it.Even 20 years from now, if computers
are a million times faster. it would still take longer than the age of the universe to crack it.
(30).Bill Gates math SAT score was a perfect 800.
(31).Bill Gates home was designed using a Mac!
(32).Disk drive recording head fly height (gap between the head and disc when the drive is spinning )
is less than 1 microinch while:-
A red blood cell is 300 microinches is diameter.
A particle of tobacco smoke is 250 microinches.
A particle of smog is 100 microinches.
A human hair is 4000 microinches.
(33).When Windows 3.1 was launched, 3 million copies were sold in the first two
months.
(34).Windows 95 can run on 386DX at 20 Megahertz, with just 4 M.B of RAM.
(35).David Bradley wrote the code for [Ctr]+[Alt]+[Delete] key sequence.
(36). First ever microprocessor by Intel was “4004”.
(37). 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.
(38). First hard disk drive was introduced by Seagate in 1979, which could hold 5 M.B. of data.
(39). 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.
(40). First Computer Company to register domain name was “Digital Equipment Corporation”.
(41). HP (Hewlett Packard) was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
(42). QWERTY keyboard sequence is 129 years old.
(43). Largest four software making Companies are:
Microsoft
Adobe
Sap
Computer Associates
(44). 1,693,000 terabytes of information are produced and stored per year.
(45). Maximum numbers of transistors on a chip are on nVidia GeFore 6800 Ultra, which contains
222 million of them.
(46). First ISP was “CompuServe” which was set up in 1969. This ISP is now an acquisition of AOL.
(47). “The Dirty Dozen” is the name of 12 engineers who designed IBM PC.
(48). It could take more than the age of universe to crack a 128 bit SSL encrypted message.
(49). Windows 95 can run on a 20 MHz 386DX and 4 MB of RAM.
(50). A normal human being blinks 20 times in a minute, where as a computer user blinks only
7 times a minute! One of the best interesting computer facts.
(51). The house of Bill Gates was designed using a Macintosh computer.
(52). Sweden is a country with the highest percentage of Internet users (75%).
(53). 'Mosaic' was the first popular web browser released in the year 1993.
(54). I am sure most of us must have played the game Tetris. Since the time it was created in
early eighties, it has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, which made it's creator
richer by $8m.
(55). Almost all computer users must know how destructive a virus can be. But then,
it would be interesting to know that the 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.
(56). Computer circuitry can be destroyed by static electricity, it is so mild for humans that
they don't even feel it.
(57). The Nvidia GeFore 6800 Ultra chip has maximum numbers of transistors on it,
approx. 222 million of them.
(58). Konrad Zuse, has the credit of creating world's first computer known as the Z1 in 1936.
Three years later in the year 1939, was when the first fully functioning electro-mechanical
computer, known as Z2 was developed.
(59). 'Stewardesses' is the longest word which can be typed with only the left hand.
(60). 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women
(61). Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'!
(62). Bill Gates house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
(63). By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.
(64). Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.
(65). E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
(66). For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.
(67). In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100% compatible unless it could run
Microsoft Flight Simulator*.
(68). MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the
tenth largest, just behind Mexico.
(69). One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.
(70). 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.
(71). The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.
(72). The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
(73). The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
(74). The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
(75). The world's 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.
(76). There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.
(77). There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.
(78). 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.
(79). 70% of virus writers work under contract for organized crime syndicates.
(80). 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.
(81). The worst MS-DOS virus ever, Michelangelo (1991) attacked the boot sector of
your hard drive and any floppy drive inserted into the computer, which caused the
virus to spread rapidly.
(82). A virus can not appear on your computer all by iself. You have to get it by sharing
infected files or diskettes, or by downloading infected files from the Internet.
(83). Country with the highest percentage of net users is Sweden (75%).
(84). The first popular web browser was called Mosaic and was released in 1993.
