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Fun Computer Facts

❖ Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was a college drop out.

❖ On one of the world's most popular shopping websites, eBay, there are transactions of approx. $680 per second.

❖ There are approx. 6,000 new computer viruses released every month.

❖ Of all the pictures available over the Internet, 80 percent of these pictures are of naked women.

❖ 'Crash Course' is another name for Microsoft Windows tutorials.

❖ The 'Email' is older than the World Wide Web.

❖ There are about five p**n pages for every 'normal' webpage.

❖ Doug Engelbart, invented the first computer mouse in the year 1964, which was made of wood!

❖ One of the world's leading computer and computer peripheral manufacturer, Hewlett Packard, was first started in a garage at Palo Alto, in the year 1939.

❖ If you open up the case of the original Macintosh, you will find 47 signatures, which is of each member of Apple's Macintosh division of 1982.

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

❖ If you want to get a computer aquarium, then you must get the Macquariums, which are aquariums made from old Macintosh computers.

❖ It is believed that the first computer virus released in the world was a boot sector virus, which was created in the year 1986 by the Farooq Alvi brothers. It was designed by them to protect their research work.

❖ The group of 12 engineers who designed the IBM PC were called 'The Dirty Dozen'.

❖ The quintessential command 'Ctrl+Alt+Delete' was written by David Bradley.

❖ Amazon is a printed book seller company, that now sells more eBooks than printed books.

❖ Over 110 million users are registered on MySpace. If MySpace was a country, it would be tenth largest in the world, while Facebook would be third largest with over a billion users.

❖ About 70% virus writers are actually employed by an organization under a contract.

❖ HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple have one thing in common. All of them were started in garages.

❖ The Apollo 11 Lunar Lander which was used to travel to the moon, has less processing power than the processor of a cell phone.

❖ Out of the 1.8 billion Internet users, only 450 million can speak English.
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Interesting Computer Facts Computers have come a long way since they were invented. Today, they are being used almost everywhere. Let us find out about a few interesting computer facts, and get ourselves amazed.