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Can You Beat This??? by KunAviero(m): 4:59pm On Oct 27, 2014
Here is a collection of 25 Most Interesting Computer
Facts featuring Funny Computer Facts, Internet
facts,virus facts and more Computer Fun Facts.
1. 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked
women
2. Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is
‘Crash Course’!
3. Bill Gates house was designed using a Macintosh
computer.
4. By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17
billion devices connected to the Internet.
5. Domain names are being registered at a rate of
more than one million names every month.
6. E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide
Web.
7. For every ‘normal’ webpage, there are five porn
pages.
8. In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn’t considered
100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight
Simulator*.
9. MySpace reports over 110 million registered
users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth
largest, just behind Mexico.
10. One of every 8 married couples in the US last
year met online.
11. 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.
12. The average computer user blinks 7 times a
minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.
13. The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
14. The first computer mouse was invented by Doug
Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
15. The first domain name ever registered was
Symbolics.com.
16. 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.
17. There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on
the Internet.
18. There are approximately 1.06 billion instant
messaging accounts worldwide.
19. 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.
20.70% of virus writers work under contract for
organized crime syndicates.
21.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.
22.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.
23.A virus can not appear on your computer all by
iself. You have to get it by sharing infected files
or diskettes, or by downloading infected files from
the Internet.
24. Country with the highest percentage of net users
is Sweden (75%).
25. The first popular web browser was called Mosaic
and was released in 1993.

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