Amazing Facts

  Computer Facts

 

• Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was a college drop out.

• On one of the world's most popular shopping websites, eBay, there are transactions of approx. $680 per second.

• There are approx. 6,000 new computer viruses released every month.

• 'Crash Course' is another name for Microsoft Windows tutorials.

• The 'Email' is older than the World Wide Web.

• There are about five porn pages for every 'normal' webpage.

• Doug Engelbart, invented the first computer mouse in the year 1964, which was made of wood!

• The first 1GB hard disk, announced in 1980, weighed about 550 pounds, and was priced at $40,000.

• SanDisk was earlier known as SunDisk.