Technology Facts

There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.

Donkeys are commonly used by the Iraqi Rebels to launch rockets!

The average office worker spends 50 minutes a day looking for lost files and other items.

The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.

On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.

More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

Dell Computers was started by a 19 year old with only $1,000.

One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.

In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator.

The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.

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.

Computer programming is currently one of the fastest growing occupations.

There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.

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.

Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.

It is now possible to print human skin with an inkjet printer!

Daizi Zheng, a Chinese designer based in London, created a concept phone for Nokia that would run on Coca-Cola. Her design used a bio-battery with enzymes to generate electricity from the sugar in the drink.

Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.

Thrity-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.

There are only 14 blimps in the world.

There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.

Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.

Approximately 365 million people in the world have computers while half of the world's 6.5 billion population has never seen or used a telephone.