Computer Facts 15

Rare Computer Facts That You Never Heard Before

• Notice the logos appearing on your Google homepage around major events or holidays? This is known as the Google Doodle. The first one was dedicated to the Burning Man festival in 1998. You can check out past Google doodles at google.com/logos.

• The infamous "I feel lucky" is nearly never used. However, in trials it was found that removing it would somehow reduce the Google experience. Users wanted it to be kept. It was like a comfort button.

• The Dilbert Zone was the first comic website on the Internet.

• Sixteen times a second is the fastest a key can be pressed on a keyboard or controller. Toshuyuki Takahashi, a Japanese, is the record holder.

• A PlayStation 3 Blu-ray disc can hold up to 20 GB of data or the equivalent of about 2000 Nintendo 64 game catridges.

• Nintendo was originally founded in 1889 as a maker of playing cards.

• In 1971, Intel launched the world's first single-chip microprocessor, the Intel 4004. The Pioneer 10 spacecraft used the 4004 microprocessor.

• The first computer to use a GUI was the 1982 Xerox 8010 Star. It introduced Windows, Icons and the mouse pointer, forming the basic elements of modern operating systems. A year later, Apple introduced Lisa, the first personal computer with a GUI.

• Intel's project on the first processor to use the new 64-bit architecture was under the code name Merced.

• The first name for Electronic Arts was actually Amazin' Software, but company founder Trip Hawkins wanted the title to reflect software as an art form, so it was subsequently changed to Electronic Arts.

• According to AT&T vice president Jim Cicconi, 8 hours of video is uploaded into You Tube every minute. This was on April 2008. On May 21,2009, You Tube received 20 hours of video content per minute.

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