Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Did You Know...

Did you know, a fancy building or store does not get you a better computer or get you better computer / network service?

Did you know, by the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet?

Did you know, 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.

Did you know, the technology contained in a single game boy unit in 2000 exceeds all
the computing power that was used to put the first man on moon in 1969?

Did you know, the QWERTY keyboard layout is 129 years old?

Did you know, according to university of California 1,693,000 terabytes of information are
produced & stored magnetically per year?

Did you know, one terabyte (1000 gigabytes) is equivalent to storing a stack of documents that is more than 16 times the height of New York's empire
state building?

Did you know, when the cd was invented, it was decided that a cd should be long enough to hold Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at any tempo which was precisely 72 minutes.

Did you know, the first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood?

Did you know, an AMD 1400 chip running without a heatsink gets as hot as 370 degrees?

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