20 FACTS ABOUT TECHNOLOGY THAT MIGHT SURPRISE YOU.

1.      The average computer blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the rate of the normal rate of 20.

2.      Email has been around longer than world wide web.

3.      Bill Gate’s house was designed by a mackintosh computer.

4.       Inside original mackintosh case you will find 47 signatures for each member of Apple’s mackintosh division of 1982.

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

6.      On average workday, a typist’s figures travels 12.6 miles.

7.      Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.

8.      On ebay, there are an average of $680 worth of transaction each second.

9.      Domain names are registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.

10.   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.  

11.   MySpace reports over 110million registered users. Were it a country it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.

12.   The domain name www.youtube.com was registered on February 14^th 2005.

13.   The DVORAK keyboard is more efficient than the QWERTY, 20 times faster in fact.

14.   Computer programming is one of the fastest growing co-occupations.

15.   The first banner advertising was used in 1994.

16.   Hewlett Packard (hp) was started in a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.

17.   By the year 2012, there were approximately 17billion devices connected to the internet.

18.   One of every eight married couples in the US last year, met online.

19.   Facebook pays at least $500 if you can find a way to hack the site.

20.   There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.