Computer Facts 8

Rare Facts That You Never Heard Before

• ICQ was the first instant messenger program, and that's notable because it's still running, although it's been bought by AOL.

• Sony's VAIO stands for 'Video Audio Integrated Operation'

• Stewardressess - the longest word you can type with your left hand using the usual two-handed typing method.

• The difference between CDRs and music CDs (or other commercially produced CDs) are that the former are burnt, while the latter are pressed. 'Pressing' is a manufacturing technique very different from burning.

• The incredible feat of a hard drive read/write head is like a 747 going 600 mph 3 feet of the ground counting blades of grass as it flies by!!!.

• Co-founder of Intel Gordon Moore is widely known for "Moore's Law," in which he predicted that the number of transistors the industry would be able to place on a computer chip would double every year.

• Windows ME was the operating system that started the technology called System File Protection that prevented applications overwriting key system files.

• LISP is a programming language written in LISP itself. When you defined functions is LISP, the entire language gets modified.

• The first product to have a bar code on its package was Wrigleys chewing gum.

• In computer slang, an ordinary, postal mail is called a snail mail.

• The netword 'ping' program gets its name from the sound of sonar. The creator, Mike Muuss, says he named it after the sound that a sonar makes, inspired by the principle of echo-location.

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