Information Technology

1)Domain registration was free until the
National Science Foundation decided to
change this on September 14th, 1995.

2) One million domain names are registered
every month.

3) In the 1950s computers were commonly
referred to as "electronic brains".

4) Lenovo stands for "new legend" . It's an
amalgamation of the words "Le" for Legend
and "novo" for new.

5) It is impossible to create a folder with the
name "con" of "Con" on any Microsoft
operating system.

6) Intel's first microprocessor the 4004 was
originally meant to be a pocket calculator.

7) The name 'worm' appeared in the 1970
movie 'Shockwave Rider' to describe a
program that propagates itself through a
computer network.

8)Estimates suggest as much as 50 percent of
the power used in desktop PCs is wasted as
heat and expelled through fans on the power
supply.

9) All the three founders of Apple Inc - Steve
Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne -
worked at Atari before creating Apple.

10) Did you know that symbolics.com was the
first ever domain name registered online?

11) The first successful high level
programming language, IBM FORTRAN was
developed in 1954.

12) The first ever search engine was called
"Archie" and was created way back in 1990
by a Canadian student Alan Emtage.

13) More than a billion transistors are
manufactured... ..every second!!!!!!!!

14) In 1982, Andrew Fluegelman created the
first ever shareware, known as PC-Talk. It was
a communications software.

15) Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee was the first subscriber to India's
first private ISP, Satyam Infoway.

16) Google earns 97per cent of its revenues
from advertising alone.

17) If Youtube was Hollywood, they have
enough material to release 60,000 new films
every week!!!!

18) Lynx was the first web browser to be
released in 1993. Opera and Netscape
followed soon after in 1994.

19) Sony's VAIO stands for 'Video Audio
Integrated Operation'

20) Stewardressess - the longest word you
can type with your left hand using the usual
two-handed typing method.

21) The first product to have a bar code on its
package was Wrigleys chewing gum.

22) Infosys was the first Indian company to
release its annual report in CD-ROM format.

23) The first web site was built at CERN.