Unique Facts

Monday, May 27, 2013

Have you heard before of this crazy Computer facts

computer virus



Over 6,000 new computer viruses are released every month.



computer hard drive



 The first hard drive was created in 1979 and could hold 5MB of data.



binary, one, null, ball
The engineers who developed the IBM PC were known as “The Dirty Dozen”





facebook, internet.With it’s 800 million internet users, Facebook would be the third largest country in the World.




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





    google, search engine
  • 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.


video game, joystickThe first game to incorporate real time audio effects, or basically, the difference in the same sound in different physical environments was Duke Nukem 3D. When the player shot his gun in the water, the sound would be muffled and gurgly





chess, artificial intelligence
In 1968, International Master David Levy made a $3,000 bet with McCarthy a researcher in Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University that no chess computer in the world would beat him. He won his bet.

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