Interesting facts about Computers and The Internet

Interesting facts about Computers and The Internet

• Amazon,originally a printed book seller company.
• The first domain name ever registered was  Symbolics.com.
• About 1.8 billion people connect to the internet.
• Sweden has the highest percentage of internet users,they are 75%.
• Up until the 14th of september,1995,domain registration was free.
• U.S President Bill Clinton's inauguration in January 1997 was the first to be webcast.
• Every minute ,10 hours of videos are uploaded on Youtube.
• Of the 247 billion email messages sent every day,81% are pure spam.
• Over 1 million domain names are registered every month.
• With it's 800 million Internet users,Facebook would be the third largest country in the world.
• The first computer company to register for a domain name was digital equipment corporation.
• 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.
• Doug Engelbart had made the first computer mouse in 1964, and it was made out of wood.
• The first hard drive was created in 1979 by Segate and could hold 5mb of data.
• The engineer's who developed the IBM PC were known as "The Dirty Dozen".
• The world's first computer which was named the Z1,was invented by Konard Zuse in 1936.His next invention, the Z2 was finished in 1939 and was the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer.
• One of the world's leading computer and computer peripheral manufacturer Hewlett Packard was first started in a garage at Palo Alto in the year 1939.
• The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
• Bill Gates,the founder of Microsoft was a college drop out.
• Bill Gates house was designed using Macintosh computer.
• A program named "Rother J" was the first computer virus to come into sight "in the wild".
• Over 6,000 new computer viruses are released every month.