Tuesday, 13 May 2014

30 Interesting and rarely known Internet and Technology facts

30 Interesting and rarely known Internet and Technology facts

We all love Internet and with amazing technological advancements, there is absolutely nothing impossible these days. Technology and of course Internet has become an integral part of our lives. That's why we ask everyone, What's Technology for? and we get an answer, its for everything. So if you are an Internet lover and Tech freak, you must be aware of these amazing and rarely known facts.

Lets begin, I hope you will know a lot that you were unaware of. And if you know some facts that we missed, to share with us.
1. Amazon, originally was a printed book seller company, now it sells more e-books than printed books.
2. The first banner advertisement on Website was introduced in the year 1994.
3. Facebook reports over 1 billion registered users. Were it a country, it would have had 3rd largest population in the World.
4. During 1980s, an IBM computer was not considered to be 100% compatible if it could not run Microsoft Flight Simulator.
5. Did you know that Email was already around before the World Wide Web came?
6. Every month, domain names are being registered at a rate of more than two million!
7. At the end of year 2012, there were total approximately 17 billion devices (which includes computers, tablets and mobile) connected to the Internet.
8. About 1.8 billion people connect to the Internet, only 450 million of them speak English.
9. Did you know how was Bill Gates's house was designed? Using a Macintosh computer.
10. Microsoft Windows tutorial’s another name is ‘Crash Course’. Now we why !
11. 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.

 12. 70% of virus writers actually work under a contract for an organization.

 13. Up until the 14th of September, 1995, domain registration was free.

 14. Symbolics.com is the first and oldest registered domain name. It completed 28 years on 15th March, 2013.

 15. Mosaic was the first popular web browser which was released in 1993.

 16. Sweden has the highest percentage of internet users, they are 75%.

 17. A program named “Rother J” was the first computer virus to come into sight “in the wild” — that is, outside the single computer or lab where it was created.

 18. While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.

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

 20. Two-thirds of American Internet users shop online.

 21. Every minute, 10 hours of videos are uploaded on YouTube.

 22. The world’s first computer which was named the Z1, was invented by Konrad Zuse in 1936. His next invention, the Z2 was finished in 1939 and was the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer.

 23. Doug Engelbart had made the first computer mouse in 1964, and it was made out of wood.

 24. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.
25. 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.
26. U.S. President Bill Clinton’s inauguration in January 1997 was the first to be webcast.

27. Tim Berners-Lee coined the phrase “World Wide Web” in 1990.

28. The first two video games copyrighted in the U.S. were Asteroids and Lunar Lander in 1980.

29. 220 million tons of old computers and other technological hardware are trashed in the United States each year.

30. Alien Robots used in famous Transformers movie series are so huge, that if all robot parts are laid out end to end, it would stretch from one side of California to the other, about 180 miles
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Emails and Spam Facts:

  • 60 billion emails are sent daily, 97% of which are spam.
  • Spam generates 33bn KWt-hours of energy every year, enough to power 2.4 million homes, producing 17 million tons of CO2.
  • 9 out of every 1,000 computers are infected with spam.
  • Spammer get 1 response to every 12 million emails they send (yet it still makes them a small profit).

Social Media:

  • A “twillionaire” is a twitterer with a million or more followers.
  • There are some 1 billion computers in use.
  • There are some 2 billion TV sets in use.
  • Facebook has 500 million registered users… and still about 100 million less than QQ – a Chinese social media portal.
  • About 20% of the videos on YouTube are music related.
  • 24 hours of video viewing is uploaded every minute on YouTube.
  • People view 15 billion videos online every month.
  • On average, US onliners view 100 videos per month each.
  • Flickr hosts some 5 billion photographs, Facebook hosts more than 15 billion.

Gadgets & Technology:

  • The first public cell phone call was made on April 3, 1973 by Martin Cooper.
  • The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was the first cell phone sold in the US; launched on April 11, 1984, it was designed by Rudy Krolopp and weighed 2 pounds.
  • There are more than 4 billion cell phones in use. About 3 million cell phones are sold every day.
  • The first known cell phone virus, Cabir.A, appeared in 2004.
  • Since 2008, video games have outsold movie DVDs.

Search Engines, Internet and Energy:

  • Amazon now sells more e-books than printed books.
  • About 1.8 billion people connect to the Internet, only 450 million of them speak English.
  • Google indexed it’s 1 trillionth unique URL on July 25, 2008. That is thought to be about 20% of all the pages on the Internet but a high percentage of the World Wide Web (the public Internet).
  • One Google search produces about 0.2g of CO2. But since you hardly get an answer from one search, a typical search session produces about the same amount of CO2 as does boiling a tea kettle.
  • Google handles about 1 billion search queries per day, releasing some 200 tons of CO2 per day.
  • The average US household uses 10.6 megawatt-hours (MWh) electricity per year.
  • 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.

Information Technology:

  • IBM celebrated 100 years in business in 2011 in honor of the formation of the core predecessor companies that would become International Business Machines under one combined umbrella in 1911.
  • n 1981, IBM started the PC revolution with the introduction of the IBM 5150, a compact personal computer that smoked mainframe processing and came at a price tag of under $1,600.
  • IBM invests $6 billion a year on research.
  • Microsoft was originally named Micro-Soft. They dropped the dash in 1976.
  • Microsoft total revenue in its 1st year: $16,000
  • IT companies continuously register new patents. Here is the list of top 10 patent Leaders for 2010:
    1. IBM 5,896
    2. Samsung 4,551
    3. Microsoft 3.094
    4. Canon 2,552
    5. Panasonic 2,482
    6. Toshiba 2,246
    7. Sony 2,150
    8. Intel 1,653
    9. LG Electronics 1,490
    10 H-P 1,480

Easter Eggs:

No, not the edible colored kind. An Easter Egg is a term that refers to an un documented feature or novelty that is in a program that the makers of that program placed in the program for additional fun and credits. Easter Eggs are in no way destructive to any software or hardware within the computer and are usually meant for something unique and fun. The irst ever Easter egg took place on the Atari 2600 way back in 1980, when Atari programmer Warren Robinett set about making a video game version of the original text Adventure. The idea of hidden gems took off and there were more to come in other venues. Here are just couple of Easter Eggs examples.
  • Google “tilt”
  • Google “do a barrel roll”
  • If for any reason or purpose (or just for this easter egg), you still own a copy of Microsoft Excel 97 , then you’ll get a kick of a Flight Simulator:
    • Excel 97 Flight Sim - (Note you must have Direct draw installed for this Flight Sim with Credits to work) In a blank worksheet, press F5. Type X97:L97 and press enter, press the Tab key once. Press and hold the Ctrl + Shift keys and click the Chart Wizard toolbar button, To fly, press your hold right to go forward/faster forward, or press and hold the left to backwards or to slow down
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Most Interesting Tech Facts in the World - Part V

Technology is a fun topic that covers a wide range of interesting areas. And in these interesting areas there are thousands of fun facts that are worth knowing. We're trying to put some of these greatest technology facts in front of you. Here we share 20 most amazing interesting technology facts in the world. This is the fifth post of the series - most interesting tech facts in the world. If you like to read our older posts on exclusive tech facts then please click HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE.


01. A fully loaded supertanker takes at least twenty minutes to stop when traveling at normal speed.

02. 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women.

03. It took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.

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

05. Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors in the early 1960s.

06. The world's first computer, called the Z1, was invented by Konrad Zuse in 1936.

07. There are approximately 1.2 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.

08. A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.

09. An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts.

10. The American Automobile Association was founded for the sole purpose of warning motorists of police speed traps!

11. A small airplane can fly backwards.

12. Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.

13. The first banner advertising was used in 1994.

14. A Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once traveled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!

15. If a car is traveling at 55 miles per hour it will travel 56 feet before the driver can shift his foot from the accelerator to the brake.

16. It would take twenty five new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.

17. The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.

18. Up until 1973, Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions.

19. Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.

20. By the end of the year 2013, there will be more than 20 billion devices connected to the Internet.
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Monday, 12 May 2014

50 Cool and Weird Fun Facts that you should know! November 05 2013, 26 Comments

Cool and Weird facts about our everyday lives that everyone should know. Check out this collection of 50 Cool and Weird Fun Facts. Do you have any other fun facts you would like to add? Post them in our comment section! Start your day learning something you didn't know yesterday. While you're at it don't forget to check out our collection of graphic tees for the optimist!

  1. You breathe on average about 5 million times a year.
  2. Months that begin on a Sunday always have a Friday the 13th in them.
  3. You are born with 300 bones, by the time you are an adult you will have 206.
  4. The average lead pencil will write a line about 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
  5. One fourth of the bones in your body are in your feet.
  6. The average person spends 2 weeks of their lifetime waiting for the light to change from red to green.
  7. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it.
  8. The present population is expected to rise to 15 Billion by the year 2080.
  9. The largest recorded snowflake was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick.
  10. The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.
  11. Native Americans used to name their children after the first thing they saw as they left their tepees after their children were born, hence the names Sitting Bull and Running Water.
  12. The Matami Tribe of West Africa play their own version of football, instead of a normal football they use a human skull.
  13. Coca-Cola would be green if the food colorant wasn't added.
  14. During the 17th Century, the Sultan of Turkey ordered his hole harem of women to be drowned and replaced with a new one.
  15. Coffins used for cremation are usually made with plastic handles.
  16. "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
  17. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
  18. Cockroaches can live several weeks with their heads cut off.
  19. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. We dare you, give it a try!
  20. A Ten Gallon Hat will only hold 3/4 of a Gallon.
  21. Of all the words in the English language, the word "SET" has the most definitions.
  22. It is against the law to burp, or sneeze inside a church in Nebraska.
  23. In 1386 a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
  24. Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
  25. The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old!
  26. Scientists have tracked butterflies travelling over 3,000 miles.
  27. The silkworm consumes 86,000 times its own weight in 56 days.
  28. If removed from the stress of the modern world, the average human would sleep about 10 hours a day.
  29. To produce a single pound of honey, a single bee would have to visit 2 million flowers.
  30. A colony of 500 bats can eat approximately 250,000 insects in an hour.
  31. One in Five adults believe that aliens are hiding in our planet disguised as humans.
  32. Travelling masseuses in ancient Japan were required by law to be blind.
  33. The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in court.
  34. James Fixx, the man who popularized jogging in America died of a heart attack while running.
  35. The average American spends about a year and a half of his or her life watching commercials on television. What are you doing?! Get out and spend that year and a half doing something productive!
  36. Ancient Greeks practiced a form (ineffective) of birth control that consisted of having a woman hold her breath, making her squat, and sneezing.
  37. The FDA permits up to 5 whole insects per 100 grams of apple butter.
  38. There are no naturally occurring blue foods, even blueberries are purple!
  39. The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present in all the important meetings of the University of London.
  40. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
  41. Just like fingerprints, everyone's tongue is different.
  42. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
  43. 400 Quarter Pounders can be made from a single cow.
  44. Only 38% of Americans eat breakfast every day.
  45. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
  46. 11% of the World is left handed.
  47. A "Jiffy" is the scientific name for 1/100th  of a second.
  48. A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight.
  49. A broken clock is right two times a day.
  50. A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, no one knows why.
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