INTERESTING FACTS FOR COMPUTER: What you know about COMPUTER

*The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
*Tim Berners-Lee coined the phrase “World Wide Web” in 1990.
*Google uses an estimated 15 billion kWh of electricity per year, more than most countries. However, google generates a lot
of their own power with their solar panels.
*Bill Gates house was designed Using a Macintosh computer.
*About 1.8 billion people connect to the Internet, only 450 million of them speak English.
*Sweden has the hightest percentage of internet users, they
are 75%.
*Up until the 14th of September, 1995, domain registration was free.
*There are about five porn pages for every ‘normal’ web-page.
*The prime reason the Google home page is so bare, is due to the fact that the founders didn’t know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. Infact, the submit button was a later addition initially, hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life.
*There are approximately
1,319,872,109 people using the Internet.
*The first Apple computer 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.
*A program named “Rother J” was the first computer virus to
come into sight “in the wild” — that is, outside the single
computer or lab where it was created.
* Mosaic was the first popular web browser which was released
in 1993.

*Of the 247 BILLION email messages sent every day, 81% are
pure spam.

25 People Who Changed the Internet
Forever

1. Sir Tim Berners-Lee – World Wide Web
2. Vint Cerf And Bob Kahn – TCP/IP
3. Larry Page and Sergey Brin – Google Inc.
4. David Filo and Jerry Yang – Yahoo! Inc.
5. Bill Gates – Microsoft
6. Steven Paul Jobs – Apple Inc.
7. Mark Zuckerberg – Facebook
8. Chad Hurley and Steve Chen – YouTube
9. Linus Torvalds – Linux
10. Jack Dorsey – Twitter
11. Kevin Rose – Digg
12. Bram Cohen – BitTorrent
13. Mike Morhaime – Blizzard Entertainment
14. Jimmy Wales – Wikipedia
15. Jeff Preston Bezos – Amazon
16. Shawn Fanning – Napster, Rupture
17. Pierre Omidyar – eBay
18. Jack Ma – Alibaba
19. Craig Newmark – Craigslist
20. Matt Mullenweg – WordPress
21. Thomas Anderson – MySpace
22. Garrett Camp – StumbleUpon
23. Jon Postel – Internet Pioneer
24. Caterina Fake – Flickr
25. Marc Andreessen – Netscape