Technology
1. Email existed before the world wide web 2. 92 per cent of the world's currency is digital 3. In 1956, 5 megabytes (5MB) of data weighed a ton. 4. A normal human being blinks around 20 times a minute. But, when compared to a computer user, they blink just 7 times a minute on an average. Simply, we tend to concentrate more on the screen, so we usually blink a lot less in front of a computer than we do normally. 5. Amazon.com did not start as a complete e-commerce business but just as an online bookstore. 6. The first 1 GB hard drive was announced by IBM in 1980 which had a price tag of $40,000! 7. ILOVEYOU is considered to be the most dangerous virus ever created in the form of a worm. It has the ability to replicate itself and crash the system. It arrived through e-mail messages as a love letter from a secret admirer. When a user opens the email and clicks on the attachment available, the virus starts its magic. ILOVEYOU, being potentially the most dangerous virus, d...