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, did not do much damage as compared to the one which was the fastest spread virus program.
8. 9 out of 10 of the world’s supercomputers run on Linux. So, now, don’t you think, Linux is appealing enough to be tried out at least once by every consumer present.
9. Thirty million individuals watch television programming from their mobile phones.
10. Of the 60 billion emails that are sent on a daily basis, 97 percent are considered spam.
11. Google handles an estimated 1 billion search queries each and every day, releasing almost 200 tons of CO2 per day.
12. On eBay, there is an average of $680 worthof transactions every second.
13. The word robot comes from the Czech “robota." In English, robota translates to "forced labor."
14. in 1956, the first ever VCR was the size of a piano.
15. Alan Turing is the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. In addition, the “Turing Machine” which is a mathematical model of computation was invented by him.
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, did not do much damage as compared to the one which was the fastest spread virus program.
8. 9 out of 10 of the world’s supercomputers run on Linux. So, now, don’t you think, Linux is appealing enough to be tried out at least once by every consumer present.
9. Thirty million individuals watch television programming from their mobile phones.
10. Of the 60 billion emails that are sent on a daily basis, 97 percent are considered spam.
11. Google handles an estimated 1 billion search queries each and every day, releasing almost 200 tons of CO2 per day.
12. On eBay, there is an average of $680 worthof transactions every second.
13. The word robot comes from the Czech “robota." In English, robota translates to "forced labor."
14. in 1956, the first ever VCR was the size of a piano.
15. Alan Turing is the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. In addition, the “Turing Machine” which is a mathematical model of computation was invented by him.
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