Tech Facts

• April 30, 1993 is an important date for the Web because on that day, CERN announced that anyone may use WWW technology freely.

• Anthony Greco, aged 18, became the first person arrested for spim (unsolicited instant messages) on February 21,2005.

• A normal human being blinks 20 times in a minute, whereas a computer user blinks only 7 times a minute!

• The house of Bill Gates was designed using a Macintosh computer.

• ‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word which can be typed with only the left hand.

• One of the biggest leaps in Google’s search engine usage came about when they introduced their much improved spell checker giving birth to the “Did you mean…” feature. This instantly doubled their traffic.

• All the three founders of YouTube Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim were working for Paypal when they started YouTube.

• The world’s first one gigabyte disk drive was announced in 1980. It weighed 550 pounds and had a price tag of $40,000.

• Google handles about 1 billion search queries per day, releasing some 200 tons of CO2 per day.

• The first public cell phone call was made on April 3, 1973 by Martin Cooper.

• Lurking is to read through mailing lists or news groups and get a feel of the topic before posting one’s own messages.

• The web, not indexed by search engines is said to be 500 times bigger than the current size of the indexed web.

• A twillionaire is a twitterer with a million or more followers.

• The first domain to ever be registered online occurred in 1985. http://www.Symbolics.com is credited with being the first domain name.