30 Funny Computer Facts
1. Amazon, originally a printed book seller
company, now sells more e-books than
printed books.
2. 220 million tons of old computers and
other technological hardware are trashed in
the United States each year.
3. The first two video games copyrighted in
the U.S. were Asteroids and Lunar Lander in
1980.
4. Tim Berners-Lee coined the phrase
“World Wide Web” in 1990.
5. U.S. President Bill Clinton’s inauguration in
January 1997 was the first to be webcast.
6. Google uses an estimated 15 billion kWh
of electricity per year, more than most
countries. However, google generates a lot
of their own power with their solar panels.
7. Microsoft Windows tutorial’s another
name is ‘Crash Course’. Now we now!
8. Did you know hows was Bill Gates’ house
was designed? Using a Macintosh computer.
9. About 1.8 billion people connect to the
Internet, only 450 million of them speak
English.
10. By the end of year 2012, there will be
total approximately 17 billion devices (which
includes computers, tablets and mobile)
connected to the Internet.
11. Every month, domain names are being
registered at a rate of more than one
million!
12. Did you know that Email was already
around before the World Wide Web came?
13. During 1980s, an IBM computer was not
considered to be 100% compatible if it
could not run Microsoft Flight Simulator.
14. MySpace reports over 110 million
registered users. Were it a country, it would
be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.
15. Last year (2011), one out of every 8
married couples in the USA, met online.
16. 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.
17. The average computer user blinks 7
times a minute, less than half the normal
rate of 20.
18. The first banner advertise was
introduced in the year 1994.
19. Doug Engelbart had made the first
computer mouse in 1964, and it was made
out of wood.
20. The first domain name ever registered
was Symbolics.com.
21. The world’s first computer which was
named 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.
22. There are approximately 1,319,872,109
people using the Internet.
23. There are approximately 1.06 billion
instant messaging accounts worldwide.
24. 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.
25. 70% of virus writers work under
contract for organized crime syndicates.
26. 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.
Two-thirds of American Internet users shop
online.
27. Sweden has the hightest percentage of
internet users, they are 75%.
28. Mosaic was the first popular web
browser which was released in 1993.
Every minute, 10 hours of videos are
uploaded on Youtube.
29. Up until the 14th of September, 1995,
domain registration was free.
30. 70% of virus writers actually work
under a contract for an organization.
