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- 1. Facebook pays at least $500 if you can find a way to hack the site.
- 2. HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple have one thing in common apart from the obvious that they are IT companies. They were all started in garages.
- 3. Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
- 4. The domain name YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. was registered on February 14, 2005.
- 5. Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
- 6. If you opened up the case of the original Macintosh, you will find 47 signatures. One for each member of Apple's Macintosh divison as of 1982.
- 7. Computer programming is currently one of the fastest growing occupations.
- 8. On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
- 9. The Dvorak keyboard is more efficient than QWERTY. 20 times faster, in fact.
- 10. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
- 11. On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.
- 12. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
- 13. 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women
- 14. In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator*.
- 15. 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.
- 16. The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
- 17. Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.
- 18. There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.
- 19. The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
- 20. E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
- 21. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.
- 22. One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.
- 23. 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.
- 24. By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet just behind Mexico.
- 26. 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.
- 27. There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.
- 28. For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.
- 29. Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
- 30. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
- 31. Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'!
