STRANGE AND FUNNY COMPUTER FACTS

STRANGE FACTS ABOUT COMPUTERS, SERVER, LAPTOPS :

In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator*.

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.

The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.

The computer in your cell phone has more processing power than all the computers in the Apollo 11 Lunar Lander that put 2 men on the moon.

The popular programming language COBOL was invented by Admiral Grace Hopper, the first female admiral in the US Navy.

An Amd 1400 chip running without a heatsink gets as hot as 370 degrees.

Macquariums are aquariams made from old macintosh computers.

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.

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.

The 4004 was the first microprocessor of intel.

The nVidia GeForce 6800 ultra has 222 million transistors which is the
record for the max. no. transistors on a chip.

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.

The code name for the 12 engineers who designed the IBM pc was :-
'The dirty dozen'.

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.

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

STRANGE FACTS ABOUT IT PROFESSIONALS / COMPANIES 

Bill Gates' Hse was designed using a Macintosh computer !!! - Bill Gates LOL ;)

Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'! --- ;) lol

Dell Computers was started by a 19 year old with only $1,000.

Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.

Bill Gates dropped out of college (Harvard) before founding Microsoft.

The first computer company to register for a domain name was digital
equipment corporation.

Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.

The four largest software makers in the world are:-
(a) Microsoft
(b) Adobe
(c) Sap
(d) Computer Associates.
. .

STRANGE FACTS ABOUT INTERNET :

80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women.

There are approximately 1,319,972,109 people on the Internet.

On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.

There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.

The first banner advertising was used in 1994.

E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.

One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.

By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.

For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.

Yahoo! was originally called 'Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web'.

STRANGE FACTS ABOUT KEY BOARD AND TYPEWRITERS 

"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

The Dvorak keyboard is more efficient than QWERTY. 20 times faster, in fact. !!! Amazing Even then QWERT is popular ??? ha ha lol.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.

STRANGE FACTS ABOUT COMPUTER GAMES 

The most expensive game ever developed was "ShenMue" for sega dreamcast.It costs $20 million.

STRANGE FACTS ABOUT SOFTWARES, STRANGE SOFTWARES 

In 1971, the first speech recognition software named, "Hearsay" was developed in India.

STRANGE FACTS ABOUT HARD DISK, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, CD-DVD-WRITERS

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 micro inches is diameter.
-- A particle of tobacco smoke is 250 micro inches.
-- A particle of smog is 100 micro inches.
-- A human hair is 4000 micro inches.

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