Some Crazy interesting Facts about Computer

1. An average person normally blinks 20 times a minute, but when using a computer he/she blinks only 7 times a minute.

2. The house where Bill Gates lives, was designed using a Macintosh computer.

3. The first ever hard disk drive was made in 1979, and could hold only 5MB of data.

4. The first 1GB hard disk drive was announced in 1980 which weighed about 550 pounds, and had a price tag of $40,000.

5. More than 80% of the emails sent daily are spams.

6. A group of 12 engineers designed IBM PC and they were called as “The Dirty Dozen”.

7. The original name of Windows was Interface Manager.

8. The first microprocessor created by Intel was the 4004. It was designed for a calculator, and in that time nobody imagined where it would lead.

9. The first bug in a computer was a dead moth found shorting a relay in the Harvard Mark II computer.

10. The first-ever registered domain name was Symbolics.com for free.

11. Windows doesn’t allow for creation of folders tagged CON, PRN, AUX, or NUL. These are keywords reserved by DOS.

12. Russians made a computer that ran on water in the mid of 1936. Computer facts to be noted.

13. A professional typist types fast and types great amount of words daily. If we measure this as distance, than it will become 12.6 miles a day for the fingers of the typist to cover each day.

14. The worst breach of U.S. military computers in history happened when someone picked up a memory stick (infected by a foreign intelligence agency) they found in the parking lot and plugged it into their computer, which was attached to United States Central Command.

15. Tandy TRS-80 Model I computer radiated so much interference that many games were designed so that an AM radio next to the computer could be used to provide sounds.

16. A 15 year old hacked NASA computers and caused a 21-day shutdown of their computers.

17. CAPTCHA is an acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”2

18. The first actual computer “bug” was a dead moth which was stuck in a Harvard Mark II computer in 1947.

19. 30,000 websites are hacked every day.

20. The Dirty Dozen was the name of a 12 engineer’s group who developed the first IBM computer.

21. In 1939, the first electro mechanical computer was made/developed.

22. More than 80% of the sent mails are spam on a daily term.

23. In 1980, the first hard disk was made to cover only 1GB of data and it was priced/rated of $40,000 means forty thousand dollars and its weighed was 550 pounds.

24. Most of people know that “who is bill gates”. Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was a college drop out. Bill Gates house was designed Using a Macintosh computer.

25. NVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra video card is built with 222 million transistors.

26. Around 20% of total online viruses are released by organized crime units.

27. IBM 5120, the heaviest and largest computer ever made which was weighed around 105 pounds without floppy drive of 130 pounds. The heaviest desktop computer ever made was IBM 5120.

28. Microprocessor for calculator, the first of first microprocessor made by Intel Company and it was the model 4004.

29. The companies HP, Microsoft and Apple seems to be friends because they all were started their business in a garage at first.

30. Which one you using to browse the web Chrome, Firefox, Safari but in 1993, ‘Mosaic’ was the first popular web/internet browser.

31. Sweden, this is the country which is from the top most countries where highest 75% of peoples are Internet user.

32. Do you own a website or blog? ‘www.symbolics.com’, this was the first domain name ever.

33. Tim Berners-Lee coined the phrase “World Wide Web” in 1990.

33. It’s really soo Shocking News. 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked woman.

34. Guys it’s very shameful for all of you “About 1.8 billion people connected to the internet, only 450 million of them speak English.

35. Every minute, 10 hours of videos are uploaded on You Tube.

36. Amazon, originally a printed book seller company, now sells more e-books than printed books.

37. Did you know that email was already around before the World Wide Web came?

38. Spending too much time online? If so, you’re not alone. For many people and users, all it takes is a desire to reduce consumption. For other users “it’s not that simple”.

39. You know that guys the average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.

40. There was a computer worm that would gain access to Windows XP systems, download a patch from Microsoft to close the vulnerability that it used to infect the system, attempt to delete the infamous Blaster worm (if present) from the system, then delete itself.