Computer Facts 18

Computer Facts That You Never Heard Before

• A blogger Kyle MacDonald made history in 2006 by trading his way to glory. Starting out with a paper clip, he traded his way to increasingly costlier items and of value included a years rent and an afternoon with Alice Cooper. He eventually traded a film role for a two-storey farmhouse Kipling, Saskatchewan.

• After Microsoft purchased 2% of facebook for $30 million, it gained a value of $15 million in 2007.

• Despite IPv4's 4.3 billion unique addresses, it is forecasted that by 2011, the address space will be consumed. A newer scheme called IPv6 is slowly replacing IPv4 in some countries. IPv6 has the capability to address 2^128 computers. To give perspective to this very big number, the world's population of 6.5 billion people as of 2006 can be given 295 unique addresses.

• Open source technology dominates the web. The most common software used for web serving is called LAMP standing for the Linux operating system, Apache web server, MySQL database and PHP scripting language.

• Over 20 million copies of Super Mario World were sold, and it went on to become the bestselling game of it's generation. This made the staggering 20,000 hours that went into developing it totally worthwhile.

• The maximum score possible in Pac-Man is 3,333,360.

• UK actress Rhona Mitra was the first official Lara Croft model.

• A whopping 11.5 million subscribers play World of Warcraft - that's more or less the population of Goa.

• George Boole published his Mathematical Analysis of Logic, inventing Boolean algebra in 1854. This became the basis for computer design.

• Almost 150 billion spams mails are sent out everyday, a carbon footprint of 17 million tons of CO2 every year. One in 12 million spam mails are replied to.

• The microprocessor to make a real splash in the market was the Intel 8088, introduced in 1979 and incorporated into the IBM PC.

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