Vishal Kulkarni

Vishal Kulkarni

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Strange Facts

1. While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.

2. Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.

3. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

4. On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.

5. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

6. In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator.

7. The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.

8. Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.

9. MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.

10. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com

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