Interesting Technology Facts

v The first e-mail was sent over the Internet in 1971.

v Bluetooth, is named after a tenth-century king of Denmark and Norway, Harald Bluetooth. Harald was known for uniting various warring tribes in Denmark and Norway, as the technology is intended to unite various other technologies.

v Google receives more than 200 million search queries a day, more than half of which come from outside the United States. Peak traffic hours to google.com are between 6 a.m. and noon PST, when more than 2,000 search queries are answered a second. In 2006, this was

2.7 Million Per day. To whom were these questions addressed Before Google? Think...

v Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.

v ENIAC, the first electronic computer, appeared 50 years ago. The original ENIAC was about 80 feet long, weighed 30 tons, and had 17,000 tubes. By comparison, a desktop computer today can store a million times more information than an ENIAC, and 50,000 times faster.

v The Top 10 in-demand IT jobs in 2010.... does not even exist in 2004.

v The No.1 Ranked country in Broadband Internet Penetration is Bermuda, 19th is US & 22 is Japan.

v The first Commercial SMS sent was in December 1992.Today the no. of text messages sent and received everyday exceeds the total population of the planet.

v Years it took to reach Market Audience of 50 million:

Radio - 38 years, TV-13 years, Internet 4 Years, IPod 3 years, Facebook 2 years.

v The no. of Internet Devices in 1984 was 1000, in 1992 was 10 Lakh, in 2008 1 billion

v Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.

v The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.

v During Bill Clinton's entire eight year presidency, he only sent two e-mails. One was to John Glenn when he was aboard the space shuttle, and the other was a test of the e-mail system.

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

v The QWERTY keyboard layout is 129 years old.

v The first Internet Service Provider was CompuServe, established in 1969 which is now under AOL.

v What does 50 G.B of storage really mean? It means we can stack 3 piles of single spaced type written pages taller than the Eiffel tower and data to support this information is about 50 gigabytes.

v The code name for the 12 engineers who designed the IBM pc was :- 'The dirty dozen'.