Computer and Internet Facts

1. Bill Gates house was designed using a Macintosh computer.

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

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3. Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.

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

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

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6. MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.

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7. 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.

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8. The First banner advertising was used in 1994.

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9. The First Computer Mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.

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10. The First domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.

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11. 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.

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12. There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.

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13. 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.

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14. 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.

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15. The worst MS-DOS virus ever, Michelangelo (1991) attacked the boot sector of your hard drive and any floppy drive inserted into the computer, which caused the virus to spread rapidly.

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16. The First popular Web Browser was called Mosaic and was released in 1993.

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