Computer Facts 9

Rare Facts That You Never Heard Before

• The first virus to use the lure of social engineering did it through a digital picture of famous Sports celebrity Anna Kournikova. Millions of people in 2001 could not resist the temptation of a free picture of the beautiful tennis star Anna Kournikova, but they got more than they bargained for.

• Google's search engine alone leaves behind a carbon footprint of 200 tons of CO2 every day. The footprint of a single search is 0.2g of CO2.

• Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the first subscriber to India's first private ISP, Satyam Infoway.

• The Palm OS fits in less than 100K, which is less than one per cent the size of Windows 98 or the Mac OS.

• Boeing was reportedly the first company to detect the Y2K glitch way back in 1993. Remeber the Y2K glitch????

• Google earns 97per cent of its revenues from advertising alone. This amounts to $20 billion.

• If Youtube was Hollywood, they have enough material to release 60,000 new films every week!!!!

• Since Google's centerpiece in search technology was patented by Stanford University (on behalf of the founder Page & Brin), Google gave Stanford 1.8 million shares for exclusive right to the patent that university later sold for a staggering $336 million.

• Leonardo Da Vinci's sketches of a mechanical calculating device that used an elaborate assembly of wheels and chains was the first computing device to be planned.

• Vorbis is an open source audio compression format. Audio encoding formats, such as mp3, VQF and AAC. Vorbis files compress to a smaller size than MP3s. According to many, Vorbis file provides better sound quality.

• Lynx was the first web browser to be released in 1993. Opera and Netscape followed soon after in 1994.

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