8 October 2012

Technology Facts

Technology Facts
  1. The First Domain Name ever registered was Symbolics.com 
  2. First four Countries to have Televisions are England, U.S, the U.S.S.R and Brazil. 
  3. Bill Gates house was designed using a Macintosh Computer. 
  4. The First Hard Drive available for the Apple ll had a capacity of only 5 Megabytes. 
  5. To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours. 
  6. Domain Names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month. 
  7. The First Computer Mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and it was made up of wood. 
  8. The normal static electricity shock that zaps your finger when you touch a doorknob is usually between 10,000 and 30,000 volts. 
  9. If a car is travelling at 55 miles per hour then it will travel 56 feet before the driver can shift his foot from the accelerator to the brake. 
  10. Myspace reports over 110 million registered users; were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico. 
  11. The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles. 
  12. The oil used by jewellers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3000 a gallon. 
  13. The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m. 
  14. By the year 2013 there will be approximately 18 billion devices connected to the Internet. 
  15. The cigarette lighter invented before the Matches box. 
  16. There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts world wide. 
  17. 80% of all pictures on the Internet are of naked womens. 
  18. There are approximately 1,319,872,109 peoples are on the Internet. 
  19. Jumbo jets use 4000 gallons of fuel to take off.
Source:Google.com

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Author: Deepak
Deepak Rana is the CEO and Founder of Technofers. He is a young Blogger from India.