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1. The domain name www.youtube.com was registered on February 14, 2005. |
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2. Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
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3. If you opened up the case of the
original Macintosh, you will find 47 signatures. One for each member of
Apple's Macintosh divison as of 1982. |
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4. Computer programming is currently one of the fastest growing occupations. |
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5. On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles. |
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6. The Dvorak keyboard is more efficient than QWERTY. 20 times faster, in fact. |
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7. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. |
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8. On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second. |
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9. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. |
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10. 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women |
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11. In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator*. |
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12. 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 |
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13. The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood. |
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