13 Most Interesting Computer Facts.....

13 Most Interesting Computer Facts.

1. The first banner advertising was
used in 1994.

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

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

4. The world’s first computer, called
the Z1, was invented by Konrad Zuse
in 1936. His next invention, the Z2 was
finished in 1939 and was the first fully functioning electro-mechanical
computer.

5. There are approximately
1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.

6. There are approximately 1.06
billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.

7. 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.

8. 70% of virus writers work under contract for organized crime
syndicates.

9. A program named “Rother J” was
the first computer virus to come into
sight “in the wild” — that is, outside
the single computer or lab where it was created.

10. The worst MS-DOS virus ever,
Michelangelo (1991) attacked the
boot sector of your hard drive and any
floppy drive inserted into the
computer, which caused the virus to spread rapidly.

11. A virus can not appear on your
computer all by iself. You have to get it
by sharing infected files or diskettes,
or by downloading infected files from
the Internet.

12. Country with the highest
percentage of net users is Sweden
(75%).

13. The first popular web browser was
called Mosaic and was released in
1993.