- 1. Amazon, originally a printed book seller company, now sells more e-books than printed books.
- 2. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
- 3. 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women
- 4. Tim Berners-Lee coined the phrase “World Wide Web” in 1990.
- 5. U.S. President Bill Clinton’s inauguration in January 1997 was the first to be webcast.
- 6. Google uses an estimated 15 billion kWh of electricity per year, more than most countries. However, google generates a lot of their own power with their solar panels.
- 7. Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was a college drop out.
- 8. Bill Gates house was designed Using a Macintosh computer.
- 9. About 1.8 billion people connect to the Internet, only 450 million of them speak English.
- 10. In 2012, approximately 17 billion devices (which includes computers, tablets and mobile) connected to the Internet.
- 11. Sweden has the highest percentage of internet users, they are 75%.
- 12. Did you know that Email was already around before the World Wide Web came?
- 13. Up until the 14th of September, 1995, domain registration was free.
- 14. One of the world’s leading computer and computer peripheral manufacturer Hewlett Packard was first started in a garage at Palo Alto in the year 1939.
Thursday, February 06, 2014
AMAZING INFORMATIOM :DID YOU KNOW?
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