Here are some interesting facts and figures (I think) about Computers and Internet. I hope this will be useful.
Yahoo is shortcut for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle”.
1985: Intel introduced the 386 microprocessor.
1989: The 486 microprocessor was introduced.
1992: The 586 Pentium microprocessor was introduced.
1996: The Pentium Pro (X86) was introduced
1997: The Pentium II was introduced.
1999: The Pentium III was introduced.
2001: The Pentium IV was introduced
80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women.
Apple Corporation founded in 1977.
Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.
Facebook was originally named TheFaceBook and it was developed by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg.
Google was founded in September 1998 by Larry Page & Sergey Brin.
Hewlett Packard known as HP was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
Microsoft Corporation founded in 1975.
Microsoft introduced their first version of Windows in 1985.
MySpace was founded by former Friendster members Chris Dewolfe and Tom Anderson in 2003.
The first computer company to register for a domain name was digital equipment corporation.
The first computer mouse was introduced in 1968 by Douglas Engelbart at the Fall Joint Computer Expo in San Francisco.
The first domain name ever registered was symbolics.com.
The first electronic mail, or “email”, was sent in 1972 by Ray Tomlinson. It was also his idea to use the @ sign to separate the name of the user from the name of the computer.
The Intel Corporation was formed in 1968.
While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.
Windows was originally named Interface Manager.
