Saturday, October 9, 2010

Amazing facts!!

Surprised?

1. Every month more than one million domain names are being registered.
2. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
3. The layout of QWERTY keyboard is 129 years old.
4. The most expensive game ever developed was “ShenMue” for sega dreamcast.It costs $20 million
5. MySpace has 110 million registered users.
6. For every five porn pages, there is only one normal page.
7. In 1971, the first speech recognition software named, “Hearsay” was developed in India.
8. Hdd was first introduced in 1979 by Seagate. Its capacity was only 5 MB
9. There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide
10. The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
11. By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.
12. The technology contained in a single game boy unit in 2000 exceeds all
the computing power that was used to put the first man on moon in 1969.
13. Bill Gates’ house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
14. South korea’s SK telecom offers an inaudible ring tone to its customers which, it claims, can repel mosquitoes.
15. It took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users where radio and television took 38 and 13 years respectively.
16. The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.

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