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| June 27, 2009
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The Apple I Computer was priced at $666.66.
Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak later said he had no idea about the correlation between the number and the mark of the beast. He says, "I came up with [it] because I like repeating digits." It was $500, plus a 33% markup.
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| August 11, 2008
| Computers
FactID: 410
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Spam accounts for over 60% of all email, according to MessageLabs.
America Online (AOL) says that at any time between 1/3 and 2/3 of its server capacity is taken up by spam.
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| March 23, 2007
| Computers
FactID: 93
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The QWERTY keyboard was
designed to be as inefficient as possible because if people
typed too fast the typewriter would become jammed. To alleviate
jamming, manufacturers arranged the keys so that many words
would be typed with only one hand, few words can be typed on
the home row, and the left hand gets the majority of the work.
The DVORAK keyboard, using a different setup, improves efficiency
by at least 70%. friends
don't let friends type QWERTY.
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| November 10, 2006
| Computers
FactID: 591
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There are now more than 100 million websites on the internet!
Counting only domain name sites with content, Netcraft has tracked the growth of the internet since 1995 and says of the 100m, around 48 million are active sites that are updated regularly. When it began observing sites through the domain name system in 1995, there were 18,000 web sites in existence.
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| November 6, 2006
| Computers
FactID: 467
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The first email was sent 30 years ago.
Mr Tomlinson sent this first email back in 1971 -- he invented the software that allowed messages to be sent between computers. He even started the convention of using the "@" sign in email addresses (his email was "tomlinson@bbn-tenexa").
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| October 7, 2006
| Computers
FactID: 586
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33.5% of Facebook visitors are between 35 and 54 years-old.
The number of visitors to Facebook has almost doubled in the past year!
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| January 9, 2006
| Computers
FactID: 520
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In 2005, AOL blocked an average of 1.5 billion spam messages per day.
Approximately eight in 10 e-mails received at its gateway were blocked as junk.
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| December 24, 2005
| Computers
FactID: 505
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Almost half of people online have at least three e-mail accounts.
In addition, the average consumer has maintained the same e-mail address for four to six years.
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| December 10, 2005
| Computers
FactID: 498
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Around 1% of the world's 650 million corporate e-mail accounts are plugged into hardware and software that forwards incoming messages to a mobile device. And about 3.65 million of them use a BlackBerry.
An estimated 126 million employees use Microsoft Outlook on desktop.
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| November 8, 2005
| Computers
FactID: 475
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The first computer "bug" was a real bug.
In 1947, engineers found a moth in Panel F, Relay #70 of the Harvard Mark 1 system. The computer was running a test of its multiplier and adder when the engineers noticed something was wrong. The moth was trapped, removed and taped into the computer's logbook with the words: "first actual case of a bug being found."
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| October 15, 2005
| Computers
FactID: 457
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AOL users spend 84% of their Internet time within AOL itself - its regulated leisure and shopping environment dominated by in-house brands.
AOL has 27 million subscribers.
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| May 25, 2005
| Computers
FactID: 348
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Back in 1999, during the heat of the Microsoft trials, Jim Allchin, Senior VP at Microsoft in charge of the Windows group, lied during testimony regarding the difficulty of removing Internet Explorer from Windows.
Allchin played a video showing how Windows slowed down a lot after running an Internet Explorer removal tool. Turns out that the video was false -- "It's not slow due to the Felten program," David Boies (lead attorney Department of Justice) continued. "It's slow because of Windows 98, isn't it?"
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| May 23, 2005
| Computers
FactID: 344
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Today, the typical information worker in North America gets 10 times as much e-mail as in 1997, and that number continues to increase.
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| May 19, 2005
| Computers
FactID: 343
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In 1978 the first spam e-mail was dispatched to about 400 people on the Arpanet (Arpanet was designed for the Department of Defense and was a precursor to the current internet).
It was a plug from a marketing representative at Digital Equipment Corporation for the new Decsystem-20 computer.
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| Source: Scientific American via Aaron Fulkerson
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| May 13, 2005
| Computers
FactID: 335
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The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle".
Yahoo started out as "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" -- as in Jerry Yang and David Filo who were Ph.D. candidates at Stanford in 1994 when they started the site.
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| March 12, 2005
| Computers
FactID: 254
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"FactMe.com" is worth $695 according to Exclusivedomains.com.
This site registers every domain name imaginable and then sells them at a set rate ($995 for 3-letter domains, $695 for 6-letter domains).
Just think - you can get www.3t8.com or www.q4d.com for only $995!
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| March 11, 2005
| Computers
FactID: 267
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Use A9.com (from Amazon) for your web search and you can get a 1.57% (Pi/2) discount off everything you buy at Amazon.
And just as discovered with last April's fact, they still keep track of everything!
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| March 5, 2005
| Computers
FactID: 264
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Better not send unsolicited IM messages.
Anthony Greco, 18, became the first person arrested for spim (unsolicited instant messages) on February 21, 2005.
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| February 22, 2005
| Computers
FactID: 253
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Every person on Earth would need to perform 100,000 calculations a second in order to equal the power of IBM's Blue Gene.
In November 2004, Blue Gene posted a new record 70.72 Teraflops, or trillions of floating point calculations per second.
Who needs that many calculations? IBM's primary partner, the National Nuclear Security Agency, who's getting a 360 Teraflop version soon.
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| February 9, 2005
| Computers
FactID: 237
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Halo 2, an Xbox game, generated more money in one day ($125M) than any movie in history.
So a videogame beat out every one of the Top 100 Grossing Films of all time (including Titanic, ET, Forrest Gump, etc. in first day sales).
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| December 25, 2004
| Computers
FactID: 169
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Google Suggest can read your mind!
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| December 11, 2004
| Computers
FactID: 150
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It took four years and 331,000 participants and the relentless efforts of distributed.net to break the 64-bit encryption developed RSA data securities.
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| Source: Wired Magazine via my Dad
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| December 9, 2004
| Computers
FactID: 145
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Wireless networking (802.11a/b/g) operates at 2.4 Ghz as does your... microwave. Get too close and your connection will drop.
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| November 15, 2004
| Computers
FactID: 132
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For anyone that's ever messed with
Windows fonts:
The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy
dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
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| November 4, 2004
| Computers
FactID: 123
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Bill Gates gets 4 million emails/day
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| April 25, 2004
| Computers
FactID: 23
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IP (Internet Protocol), the way computers
talk on the internet, defines an addressing scheme so that every
device attached to a network can be uniquely identified and
contacted.
IPv4 (IP Version 4), which is what we are currently using,
allocates 32 bits for addresses. Hence there are up to 232
= 4,294,967,296 addresses. 4 billion addresses for computers,
etc.
However, we are running
out of IP addresses. The next version of IP, version 6,
allocates 128-bits for identifying each network device. That
is, there will be 2128 = 3.4 x 1038 =
340,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 addresses.
There are 7.5 x 1018 grains
of sand in all the worlds beaches.
There are 1028 atoms in your body.
IPv6 will give us 3.4 x 1038 addresses for computers,
etc.
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| April 16, 2004
| Computers
FactID: 14
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3.50 stars from 8 votes
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I am the 18th most popular Sunil in the world.
Google "sunil". Try
it.
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