Random Computer Facts

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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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    Game Boy Uses More Computing Power Than First Lunar Mission
    The technology of a single Game Boy exceeds all the computing power that was used to put the first man on moon in 1969.
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    Lost Bitcoin
    Lost Bitcoin
    A man from Newport, UK, threw away a computer hard drive before realizing that it contained $7.5 million worth of bitcoins.
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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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    Lose/Lose
    Lose/Lose
    There's a video game called "Lose/Lose" that deletes a random file on your computer every time you kill an enemy.
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    The famous Windows start-up sound was composed using a Mac.
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    Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
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    According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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