Most Popular Computer Facts

Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer. There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.

. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand
4. Computer programming is currently one of the fastest growing occupations.

5. On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles. 6. The Dvorak keyboard is more efficient than QWERTY. 20 times faster, in fact. 8. On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second. 12. 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. 13. The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood. 17. E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web. 18. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20. 19. One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online. 21. By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet. 23. 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. 28. Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'!

4. First computer virus was written by Farooq Alvi brothers (Basit Farooq Alvi & Amjad Farooq Alvi) in 1986. Though some other people say that it was written even before. Alvi brothers wrote this virus to protect their research work. 8. Largest four software making Companies are: Microsoft Adobe Sap Computer Associates 12. The Dirty Dozen is the name of 12 engineers who designed IBM PC 14. Windows 95 can run on a 20 MHz 386DX and 4 MB of RAM. 15. [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [Delete] sequence was written by David Bradley.