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AMAZING TECH FACTS
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#1 1981 was the year that PCs began,when IBM deputed the IBM PC.Microsoft shipped it with BASIC.The operating system too was developed by microsoft.
#2 In 1976,the term"personal computer"first appeared in print,in the may issue of Byte magzine.
#3 The term "bug"was probably coined after admiral Grace Hopper found a moth in the mark 2 computer at the US naval surface warfare center,causing machine to malfunction.
#4 Cyber Patrol,Surf Watch,Net Nanny and Big brother are all access filters used to block access to objectionable web sites.
#5 Google got its name from the mathematical figure googol,which denotes the number 'one followed by a hundred zeroes.'
#6 Telnet is one of the oldest form of internet connections.Today ,it is used to access online databases.
#7 According to yahoo!,cloning,saddam hussein,iraq were most searched for news stories in 2003.
#8 On july 8 ,1997 internet traffic records were broken as the NASA website broadcasts images taken by pathfinder on Mars.
#9 In 2002,author of the Mellisa virus,David L.Smith was sentenced to 20 month in federal prison in New Jersey.
#10 James Gosling created java at sun microsystems.He came up with the name 'Java' while debating over it at a coffee shop.
#11 The first ever ISP was CompuServe,established in 1969.It still exists,under AOL Time Warner.
#12 The first hard drives available were about 5 to 10 MB and sold for 100 US dollar per megabyte.
#13 When Windows 3.1 was launched,3 million copies were sold in the first two months.
#14 Bill Gates home was designed using a Mac!
#15 The term 'Silicon Valley' was coined by journalist Don Hoefler.
#16 The fastest supercomputer in india is the 574-CPU cluster at Intel,Banglore.
#17 A refresh rate of 85 Hz on your monitor means that every single pixel is refreshed 85 times per second.
#18 HP's first Inkjet printer was launched in 1984.
#19 In the 1970s ,the very first cordless phones were introduced.
#20 Bell Labs concieved the idea of the cellular phone in 1947.