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

In 20 years, one of the hardest things kids will have to do
is find a username that hasn't already been taken.

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