Facts About Computer

Computer performance increased by about a factor of a million between 1950 and 1990.

Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'!

Modern Microprocessors contain as many as 10 million transisters.

At the beggining of 1995 there were 24 million users on the Internet, of those 17 million were based in America. The Internet has doubled in size each year since it was invented in 1988.

The fastest computer in 1993, the CM-5, could perform 131 billion operations per second. With a pocket calculator this number of operations would take 41 000 years.

The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.

Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.

By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.

Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.

E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.

For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.

In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight SimulatorMySpace reports

over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.

One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.

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.

The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.

The first banner advertising was used in 1994.

The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.