This day and
age everything is computerized. By 2012 seventeen billion devices have been connected
to the internet. It is amazing on how much
we use and depend on the internet. Books
are rarely used to reference information anymore; Google, Ask, and Jeeves are
very popular sights for getting information. For instance when I wanted to look
up the interesting facts about computers for this article I used Google.
Hewitt Packard, Google, Microsoft, and Apple were all started
in garages, image that! Now they are
million dollar companies in million dollar facilities.
Inside original Macintosh case you will find 47 signatures
for each member of Apple’s Macintosh division as of 1982. The first computer
mouse was made of wood by Doug Engelbart in 1964.
The Dvorak keyboard is
more efficient then the QWERTY keyboard it is 20X faster. It is said that the
Dvorak layout uses less finger motion, increases typing rate, and reduces
errors compared to the standard QWERTY keyboard. Although the Dvorak keyboard
has failed to replace the QWERTY keyboard, most major operating systems allows
one to switch to the Dvorak layout.
Facebook will pay at least $500 if you can hack their site. I wonder how many people have tried that? YouTube was invented on Valentine’s Day in
2005. Did you know that one of every 8
U.S. married couples met online?
Do you do a lot of shopping on line? Well here is a fact that
will blow your mind, on E-Bay there is an average of $680 worth of transactions
each second.
E-mail has been around longer then the World Wide Web. Ray Tomlinson invented the e-mail in 1971 and
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989.
This last fact I will share with you is an eye opener. The average computer user blinks 7 times a
minute, less than ½ the normal rate of 20 times a minute. I guess they don’t want
to miss anything by blinking too much.
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