Fun Facts: Do You Know?

1. Bill Gates is the founder, former chief executive and current chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen.  


2. Steve Jobs was best known as the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. He died on October 5, 2011 (aged 56) because of cancer. 


3. Larry Page and Sergey Brin are the two masterminds behind the world’s largest search engine; Google.com, and it was developed as a project during their graduate studies at Stanford University. 


4. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. It began in 2005, after they had experienced difficulty sharing videos that had been shot at a dinner party at Chen's apartment in San Francisco. 


5. The two founders of Yahoo!, David Filo and Jerry Yang, have started their guide in a campus trailer in February 1994 as a way to keep track of their personal interests on the Internet.  


6. Mark Zuckerberg is best known as one of five co-founders of the social networking site, Facebook. He is best known as the chairman and chief executive of Facebook, Inc.  


7. Tim Berners-Lee, is a computer scientist and the inventor of the World Wide Web.


8. Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 500 million active users as of 2012; over 340 million tweets daily.

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.