Computer Facts 10

Rare Facts That You Never Heard Before

• Pacman got its name from the Japanese word 'pacu' meaning 'to munch'. Since pacu is pronounced the same as 'f*** you' only with a p sound, its name was Pacman.

• In February 2009. Twitter had a monthly growth (of users) of over 1300 % - several times more than Facebook.

• The inspirationt for the brand name Yahoo! Came from a word made up by Jonathan Swift in his book Gulliver's Travels. A Yahoo was a person who was ugly and not human in apperance.

• The first ever search engine was called "Archie" and was created way back in 1990 by a Canadian student Alan Emtage.

• In 1999, new fiber was being installed at a rate of 2800 miles or 4500 kilometers per hour !

• Tom Vendetta is the youngest Google employee ever hired. He was hired by Google when he was just 15 years old. Vendetta used to fool his friends by sending fake press releases and news. Vendetta was employed because he was young and would know how young hackers thought. His job was to help address security flaws in Gmail.

• More than a billion transistors are manufactured.....every second!!!!!!!!

• Heard of Mentaplex? It was an April fools joke that Google could read peoples minds and search the Internet for what they were thinking of.

• On average, only 24 songs on each ipod are paid for directly. The rest are either illegally downloaded or ripped from CDs.

• In 1982, Andrew Fluegelman created the first ever shareware, known as PC-Talk. It was a communications software.

• Sasser was the first mass spread worm virus that didn't need to utilise email for delivery. Globally Sasser's effects were devastating. It grounded aircraft, blocked satelite communications and closed down banks. In May 2004, an 18 year-old German computer science student was arrested for authoring the virus.

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