Fun Facts !!

*The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.

*Amongst the most interesting computer facts is, when the first Apple computer which was built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, it was made by using parts they got for free from their employers. They were made to scrounge spare parts from work.

*Tim Berners-Lee coined the phrase “World Wide Web” in 1990.

*Google uses an estimated 15 billion kWh of electricity per year, more than most countries. However, google generates a lot of their own power with their solar panels.

*Bill Gates house was designed Using a Macintosh computer.Grear na

*The prime reason the Google home page is so bare, is due to the fact that the founders didn’t know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. Infact, the submit button was a later addition initially, hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life.

*There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people using the Internet.

*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.

*‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word which can be typed with only the left hand.

* Mosaic was the first popular web browser which was released in 1993.

*Of the 247 BILLION email messages sent every day, 81% are pure spam.

*About 1.8 billion people connect to the Internet, only 450 million of them speak English.

*Sweden has the hightest percentage of internet users, they are 75%.

*Up until the 14th of September, 1995, domain registration was free.

*One out of every 8 married couples in the USA (2011), met online.

*There are about five porn pages for every ‘normal’ web-page.