AOL says spam is number one complaint of its customers,and that it has to block over one billion unsolicited e-mails every day.

Satyam Online became the first private ISP in december 1998 to offer internet connections in india.

In 1949,theories of self replicating programs were first developed.

Did you know that the university of waterloo 'stole' version 7 of Unix before it was released?

The first digital computer weighed 30 tons.

In old Fortran compilers,if you said a=2 and then 3=a then 3 would become 2 and 3+3 would add upto 4!

Robert Heath Denard of the IBM T J Watson Research Center was the inventor of RAM

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Nice facts, but a very immature way of posting. A second level freeposting that is.

Ok,now onwards i will post at least 5 fact in one post.Do visit again.

The high speed data high ways of the internet are called backbones
In 1982,andrew fluegelman created first ever shareware known as PC TALK.
Did you know that windows XP was code named Whistler
In CD ROM drives 1X=150 KBps.In DVD 1X=1.38 MBps
The celeron processor was launched in 1999 by intel.

Bloatware is software thats too large for its utility

The Apple Think Different compaign used Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy in one of its add

Did u know that Seagate was the first company to manufacture hard disks

HP came up with an alternative to java called Chai in 2001

Scott mcnealy of sun microsystem has a dog called network

Adobe is the second largest software company in the world

[br]Scott Mcnealy founded Sun microsystem in1982.


Bill Gates"The Road Ahead"has been translated into 25 languages.


Did u know that all three founder of Compaq came from texas instruments.


The term "bit" was coined by John tuckey.

Seagate introduced the first hard disk for PC in 1979,it held 5 MB of data.

The windows 98/95 logos were created with Freehand on a Macintosh

The first fully transistorised supercomputer was the CDC 1604,designed by Seymour Cray in 1958

A Seagate cleanroom is 100 times cleaner than a typical hospital operating room.

The name Epson for the popular brand of printers was coined when subsequent models of their first printer'Electronic Printer 101'were called'Sons of Electronic Printer.

The first UPC scanner was installed at a Marsh's supermarket in Troy,Ohio in june 1974.

The Red Book is the 1980 document that provides specifications for the standard compact disk developed by sony and philips.

not only online databases...u can use telnet to connect to remote host through any protocol

This topic is very informative...choclate can u provide us some facts abt open source also...

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but y did u stop.
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