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.
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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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In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator*.
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There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.
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The domain name www.youtube.com was registered on February 14, 2005.
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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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The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
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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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Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.
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The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
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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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Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
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In 1999, Pokémon was the second most searched topic on the internet. The first was pornography.
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