Fun Facts: Do You Know?

1. The computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in 1963. It was made out of wood.
2. It took the radio 38 years and the television only 13, but the internet reached 50 million users in only 4 years.
3. HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple have one thing in common – apart from the obvious that they are IT companies. They were all started in garages.
4. A Bit stands for "Binary Digit" a Bit can hold only one of two values 0 or 1.
5. The personal computer runs 400 times faster than the main frames of 30 years ago.
6. In 1998, 9.4 billion E-mail messages were sent per day.
7. The first computers were huge machines that took up whole rooms.
8. Apple is credited with having the first successful computer with a mouse attached.
9. A central processing unit is sometimes called the brains of a pc. The faster your cpu is, the quicker you computer is.
10. William Henry Gates III is Bill Gates real name. He changed it early in life simply because it was easier to say.