Interesting Facts About Computers and Tech

1. The URL: http://akebono.stanford.edu/ used to be the original home of Yahoo!
2. IBM holds over 25000 patents to this date, followed by Microsoft at 5000 patents.
3. Pope Benedict XVI email is benedictxvi@vatican.va.
4. In 2007, Facebook.com was given an estimated value of $15 billion dollars!
5. The electricity consumed by MP3 players worldwide eclipsed the electricity consumption of mobile telephones worldwide in June of 2007.
6. If you opened up the case of the original Macintosh, you will find 47 signatures. One for each member of Apple's Macintosh division as of 1982.
7. Microsoft produces 42% software of the world.
8. The average teenage Instant Messenger user has 192 contacts in his or her buddy list. The average 45 year-old has 26 contacts in his or her buddy list.
9. In October 2007, the number of email sent per day in the world reached 183 billion messages.
10. The technology contained in a single GameBoy Advance unit in 2000 exceeds all the computing power that was used to put the first man on moon in 1969.
11. Today world's fastest supercomputer is Blue Gene/L by IBM. It comprises of 106,496 dual-core 700MHz processors!
12. Bill Gates math SAT score was a perfect 800.
13. Google has, on average, 22.4 MB of stored data about every active Internet user.
14. Seagate introduced the first hard disk drive for PCs in 1979. It held 5 MB of data.
15. During World War II, IBM built counting machines the Nazis used to manage their death/concentration camps.
16. There is a three percent spike in electrical power usage at 3:00 A.M. following the second Tuesday of each month due to Microsoft-Windows based computers rebooting themselves after receiving their monthly updates.
17. Printer manufacturers print invisible yellow dots on consumer's prints that check to see if a person is printing counterfeit money.
18. Eidos Interactive reports that Lara Croft, heroine of their famous Tomb Raider video game series, has "died" 480 million times worldwide.
19. Spam email accounts for 14.5 billion messages globally per day.
20. If trends continue, by 2017, a single computer hard drive will be able to hold all the data contained on all of the hard drives currently in existence today.
21. Average computer speed doubles about every 18 months; hard drive size doubles every year.
22. From the smallest microprocessor to the largest mainframes, an average American depends on more than 250 computers per day.
23. There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.
24. The average computer user blinks seven times a minute, less than half the normal rate of twenty.
25. Approximately 365 million people in the world have computers while half of the world's 6.5 billion population has never seen or used a telephone.