Your Daily Facts about Computers
The first computer mouse was introduced in 1968 by Douglas Englehart and was made of wood.
There over a BILLION users on the internet and this is growing daily.
By 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the internet.
A computer bug was so named after a moth was found in a relay calculator (primitive computer…besides of course, the abacus…which, really was the original computer) and caused the machine to malfunction.
Email has been around longer than the world wide web.
The internet was started in 1957 and went live in 1969 between the University of California Los Angeles and the Stanford Research Institute.
The average 21 year old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games, exchanged 250,000 emails/instant messages/texts and 10,000 hours on the cell phone. Hmph, maybe my youth library excursions weren’t so time consuming and wasteful after all.
There are one million domain names registered every month. I wonder ….. we will ever run out of names?
The number of text messages sent and received in any given day is greater than the ENTIRE WORLD’S POPULATION. And most of them come from my 12 year old granddaughter. Just kidding!
Approximately 365 million people have computers in the world, but half of the world’s population (6.5 billion) have never seen or used a TELEPHONE.