Computer Facts 16

Rare Computer Facts That You Never Heard Before

• PlayStation 2 hit the shelves in Japan on March 4, 2000 and sold 98,000 units in four hours.

• Daphne Bavelier at the University of Rochester, New York, exploded the myth that video gaming is bad for your eyes, when her experiments clearly showed that video games improves a person's ability to perceive contrast, a skill we rely on in dark conditions. In other words, playing first person shooters may actually make you a better night driver.

• The longest phone cable is a submarine cable called FLAG (Fiber -Optic Link Around the Globe). It spans 16,800 miles from Japan to the United Kingdom and can carry 600,000 calls at a time.

• Hotwired was the first Web site to feature a banner ad.

• The chairman of IBM Thomas Watson infamously predicted that there was a total world market of only 5 computers!!!!!!!!

• All the three letter word combinations from aaa.com to zzz.com are already registered as domain names.

• The microprocessor was invented in 1971. The creation was considered a computer on a chip.

• Jim Knopf is known as the 'father of shareware'. The first shareware program was PC-FILE, in 1982 which Knopf published under the pseudonym Jim Button.

• The first digital camera was designed by a Kodak engineer by the name of Steven Sasson. It weight 3.6 kg and was the size of a toaster.

• In 1995, Iomega Corp went from $3.5 a share to $48.63 for a gain of 1396%. This made it the company to have the greatest percentage gain of all NASFAQ high-tech stocks ever.

• The online population of Facebook, 250 million users worldwide and MySpace, which had 100 million accounts by 2007, are bigger than the population of many nations worldwide. On April 2008, Facebook overtook MySpace in terms of montly visits.

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