Computer Facts 11

Rare Computer Facts That You Never Heard Before

• The prime reason Google home page is so bare, is due to the fact that the founders didn't know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. In fact, the submit button was a later addition and initially, hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life.

• Spam accounts for over 60 per cent of all email, according to MessageLabs. Google says at least one third of all Gmail servers are filled with spam.

• Mr Tomlinson was the first person on records to have sent an email. His email address was : tomlinson@bbn-tenexa. He had invented this software that allowed messages to be sent between computers. He is also credited with the use of the @ in email address.

• Before they can read, almost one four children in nursery school(US) are learning a skill that evensome adults have yet to master: using the Internet. About 23 per cent of children in nursery school - kids age 3, 4 or 5 - have gone online.

• Did you know that www.symbolics.com was the first ever domain name registered online?

• Sweden has the highest percentage of its population i.e 76.9 per cent hooked on to the Internet. In contrast, the world average is 11.9 per cent and India has a poor 7.2 per cent.

• In June 1980, The VIC-20 became the first computer to sell over a million units. It just had 3.5 KB of usable memory.

• The first successful high level programming language, IBM FORTRAN was developed in 1954.

• Wintel computers, PCs with an Intel processor and running a Windows operating system, account for 80 per cent of PCs in use today.

• The Morris worm is the first worm to break into the wild, and infect a large number of machines in 1988.

• The Babyoanians were the first to come up with Algorithms for mathematical operations like factorization of numbers, in 1600 BC.

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