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.
The domain name www.youtube.com was registered on February 14, 2005.
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Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
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If you opened up the case of the original Macintosh, you will find 47 signatures. One for each member of Apple's Macintosh divison as of 1982.
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Computer programming is currently one of the fastest growing occupations.
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On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
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TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.
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"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
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Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'!
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The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
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Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
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For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.
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There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.
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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.
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MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.
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By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.
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The average 21 year old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games, has exchanged 250,000 e-mails, instant and text messages and has spent 10,000 hours on the mobile phone.
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One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.
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The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.
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E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
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