Computer Facts
List of funny, unbelievable, weird, and interesting computer fun facts. Featuring various computing trivia about things like the internet, Facebook, hardware, and software.
Song stuck in your head but can’t think of the name? There's a website called midomi.com that allows you to sing or hum a song into your computer or phone and it will find the actual song.
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In 2013, AOL declared that they still made over $500 million a year through dial-up internet subscriptions.
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As of 2011, gamers have collectively spent over 6 million years playing World of Warcraft. That's almost as long as the existence of the human species!
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The ‘@’ sign is centuries old, and was used in Europe to denote a unit of weight (the “arroba”) equivalent to 25 lbs.
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IBM's Watson computer has 90 processors, 2,880 cores, 11,200 threads, 16 terabytes of RAM, and 4TB worth of data on its hard drive.
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MDIF, a New York based non-profit organisation, is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
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A bag of marijuana was the first thing ever bought and sold over the internet.
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IMDb is one of the oldest websites on the internet, and began on Usenet in 1990 as a list of "actresses with beautiful eyes".
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In 1989, a British company made a laptop with a graphical user interface, a 60 hour battery life, SSD storage, and a touchpad.
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The Pirate Bay tried buying their own island in hopes of making their own country with no copyright laws.
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CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
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Steve Jobs never wrote a single line of programming code.
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The four ghosts in Pac-Man are programmed to act differently: red chases you, pink just tries to position itself in a set way, blue tries to ambush you and orange is random.
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28% of IT Professionals hide their career from family or friends out of fear of being asked to provide free tech support.
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In 1999, Pokémon was the second most searched topic on the internet. The first was pornography.
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The famous Windows start-up sound was composed using a Mac.
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The first webcam was used in 1991 by Cambridge researchers for checking the coffee pot without leaving their desks.
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In October 1997, when Internet Explorer 4.0 was released, some Microsoft employees left a giant "From the IE team... We Love You" on Netscape's lawn.
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HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple have one thing in common – apart from the obvious that they are IT companies. They were all started in garages.
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Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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