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We are introducing a new section which is about amazing facts about computer world, because today in many fields there are quiz competitions so we think that people should have better knowledge of computer field. So we are starting this section which is called "CT Facts".
We are introducing a new section which is about amazing facts about computer world, because today in many fields there are quiz competitions so we think that people should have better knowledge of computer field. So we are starting this section which is called "CT Facts".
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- There are about 45,000,000,000 searchable pages on the web.
- The domain name www.youtube.com was registered on Valentines Day (February 14, 2005).
- The day after Internet Explorer 4 was released, a few Microsoft employees left a 10 by 12-foot Internet Explorer logo on Netscape's front lawn with a message that said "We love you" at the height of the browser wars in the late 90s.
- Google logs each search queries into its systems to enhance future search.
- All the three founders of YouTube Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim were working for Paypal when they started YouTube.
- One of the biggest leaps in Google's search engine usage came about when they introduced their much improved spell checker giving birth to the "Did you mean..." feature. This instantly doubled their traffic.
- The first ever video that was uploaded on Youtube is by Jawed Karim (one of youtube founders) titled "Me at zoo" on April 23rd, 2005. This video is all of 18 seconds long.
- Anthony Greco, aged 18, became the first person arrested for spim (unsolicited instant messages) on February 21,2005.
- Sony introduced the 3.5 inch floppy in 1981.
- In 2003, a 14-year old Romanian boy collapsed and was hospitalised because he had been playing Counter Strike for nine days in a row.
- On June 17,1980 Atari's 'Asteroids' and 'Lunar Lander' were the first two video games to ever be registered in the Copyright office.
- In 1968, International Master David Levy made a $3,000 bet with McCarthy a researcher in Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University that no chess computer in the world would beat him. He won his bet.
- The first all-computer chess championship was held in New York in 1970, and was won by CHESS 3.0 - a program written by Slate, Atkin and Gorlen at Northwestern University, Illinois.
- Starcraft is the first computer game to be played in space. It was sent on shuttle mission STS-96 back in 1999 by Daniel T. Barry, a mission specialist.
- April 30, 1993 is an important date for the Web because on that day, CERN announced that anyone may use WWW technology freely.
- Microsoft released Internet Explorer in 1995. This event initiated the browser wars. By bundling Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system. By 2002, Internet Explorer became the most dominant web browser with a market share over 95 per cent.
- The concept of style sheets was already in place when the first browser was released.
- The first web site was built at CERN. CERN is the French acronym for European Council for Nuclear Research and is located at Geneva, Switzerland.
- Although many teenagers were involved in hacking before 2000, it was the year the first underage hacker was actually sent to jail. Jonathan James spent time for Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
- Gmail started as a free mail service from Garfield.com before Google bought the rights to the domain.
- On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
- On eBay, there is an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.
- Wii Sports is the biggest selling game of all time with over 46 million copies sold.
- In Spring 1967, MacHACK VI became the first chess program to beat a human at the Massachussets State Chess Championship.
- Deep Blue's chess playing program is written in C and runs under AIX operating system. It is capable of evaluating 10 crore positions per second.
- The first computer book to sell one million copies was 101 BASIC Computer Games which was published by Creative Computing in 1978 in the US.
- The "www" part of a web site (www.google.com) is optional and is not required by any web policy or standard.
- The first White House website was launched during the Clinton-Gore administration on October 21, 1994. Coincidentally, the site www.whitehouse.com linked to a pornography web site.
- As of July 2009, Microsoft Internet Explorer accounted for 67.68 per cent of all browsers used. Mozilla Firefox was used by 22.47 per cent of all users.
- By July 2008, Google had indexed an astounding one trillion (1000000000000) pages on the Internet.
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