Computer Facts 12

Rare Computer Facts That You Never Heard Before

• YouTube's bandwith requirements to upload and view all those videos cost as much as 1 million dollars a day and growing. The revenues generated by YouTube cannot pay for its upkeep.

• The first ever camera took 8 hours to take a photograph. It consisted of bitumen(tar) over a metal plate. The exposed parts of the tar would harden and the soft part cleaned away. Got patience???

• Sara Lhadi logged 16,799 hours grinding away in Runescape between November 2004 and October 2009 . That's nearly 700 days, which is nearly two solid years of game time!!!! Also, that averages out to 9 hours 20 minutes a day.

• One million domain names are registered every month!!!

• In a recent survey conducted by security specialist Symantec of the 100 most unsafe and malware infested web sites, 48 per cent of them feature adult content.

• Bit torrents, depending on location, are estimated to consume 27 to 55 per cent of all internet bandwidth as of February 2009.

• Domain registration was free until the National Science Foundation decided to change this on September 14th, 1995.

• Naked women make up 80 per cent of all the pictures on the internet.

• Employees at Google are encouraged to use 20 percent of their time working on their own projects. Google News, Orkut are both examples of projects that grew from this working model.

• Someone is a victim of a cybercrime every 10 seconds, and it is on the rise.

• The first software to be imported from Soviet Union to the US was Tetris, developed by Alexey Pazhitov in 1985.

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