Interesting Technical Facts :)


    • ALL THREE FOUNDERS (STEVE CHEN, CHAD HURLEY AND JAWED KARIM) OF YOUTUBE WERE WORKING FOR PAYPAL WHEN THEY STARTED YOUTUBE.
    • WHILE IT TOOK THE RADIO 38 YEARS, AND THE TELEVISION A SHORT 13 YEARS, IT TOOK THE WORLD WIDE WEB ONLY 4 YEARS TO REACH 50 MILLION USERS.
    • THERE WILL BE APPROXIMATELY 17 BILLION DEVICES CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET BY THE YEAR 2012.
    • ZIMBIO (240%) AND FACEBOOK (228%) WERE THE SECOND AND THIRD-FASTEST GROWING ONLINE COMMUNITIES.
    • SOCIAL NETWORKING IS THE FASTEST GROWING PART OF THE INTERNET. THERE ARE 70 MILLION ACTIVE USERS ON FACEBOOK (THE 8TH MOST POPULAR SITE IN THE WORLD), MORE THAN 14 MILLION PHOTOS ARE UPLOADED DAILY. THE FOURTH MOST POPULAR COUNTRY FOR FACEBOOK ID TURKEY WITH 3.3% OF USERS. AUSTRALIA IS 6TH, 2.7%. MEANWHILE, A SOPHOS POLL OF 600 WORKERS FOUND THAT 43 PER CENT WERE UNABLE TO ACCESS FACEBOOK AT WORK, WHILE AN ADDITIONAL SEVEN PER CENT REPORTED THAT USE OF THE SITE WAS RESTRICTED.
    • BOILING A KETTLE EQUALS ABOUT 25 GOOGLE SEARCHES. THE EXAGGERATED FIGURES FOR SEARCHES INCLUDE THE ENERGY USED BY YOUR OWN PC IN 20-60 MINUTES.EACH GOOGLE QUERY USES ABOUT 0.004 KWH ON THEIR SERVERS.
    • GOOGLE KEEPS ALL SEARCH ASSOCIATED WITH YOUR IP ADDRESS FOR 30 DAYS. AND YOUR GMAIL EMAILS FOR 30 DAYS EVEN AFTER YOU DELETE THEM FROM TRASH.
    • GOOGLE STARTED IN JANUARY, 1996 AS A RESEARCH PROJECT AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY, BY PH.D. CANDIDATES LARRY PAGE AND SERGEY BRIN WHEN THEY WERE 24 YEARS OLD AND 23 YEARS OLD RESPECTIVELY.
    • THE GOOGLE SEARCH ENGINE RECEIVES ABOUT A BILLION SEARCH REQUESTS PER DAY.
    • THE FIRST INTERNET WORM WAS CREATED BY ROBERT T.MORRIS, JR, AND ATTACKED MORE THAN 6000 INTERNET HOSTS.
    • THE MORNING AFTER INTERNET EXPLORER 4 WAS RELEASED, CERTAIN MISCHIEVOUS MICROSOFT WORKERS LEFT A 10 BY 12 FOOT LETTER 'E' AND A BALLOON WITH THE MESSAGE, "WE LOVE YOU", ON NETSCAPE FRONT LAWN.
    • THE INTERNET WAS INITIALLY CALLED THE 'GALACTIC NETWORK' IN MEMOS WRITTEN BY MIT'S J C R LICKLIDER IN 1962.
    • THE FIRST SEARCH ENGINE FOR GOPHER FILES WAS CALLED VERONICA, CREATED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SYSTEM COMPUTING SERVICES GROUP
    • MARC ANDREESSEN FOUNDED NETSCAPE. IN 1993, HE HAD ALREADY DEVELOPED MOSAIC, THE FIRST WEB BROWSER WITH A GUI.
    • THE ORIGINAL FOUNDER OF FACEBOOK AND CEO IS 24 YEAR OLD MARK ZUCKERBURG. MARK AND 3 OF HIS ROOMMATES CREATED FACEBOOK WHILE ATTENDING HARVARD UNIVERSITY AND LAUNCHED THE SITE ON FEBRUARY 4, 2004 FROM THEIR COLLEGE DORM ROOM. FORBES MAGAZINE NAMED MARK “THE WORLD’S YOUNGEST SELF-MADE BILLIONAIRE” BEING WORTH AN ESTIMATED $1.5 BILLION DUE TO HIS CREATION OF THE POPULAR WEBSITE.
    • GOOGLE CONSISTS OF OVER 450,000 SERVERS, RACKED UP IN CLUSTERS LOCATED IN DATA CENTERS AROUND THE WORLD.
    • U OPENED UP THE CASE OF THE ORIGINAL MACINTOSH, U WILL FIND 47 SIGNATURES ONE FOR EACH MEMBER OF APPLE'S MACINTOSH DIVISON AS OF 1982.
    • WINDOWS 95 CAN RUN ON 386DX AT 20 MEGAHERTZ, WITH JUST 4 M.B OF RAM.
    • WHEN WINDOWS 3.1 WAS LAUNCHED, 3 MILLION COPIES WERE SOLD IN THE FIRST TWO MONTHS.
    • 128 BIT SSL ENCRYPTION IS SO STRONG THAT IT WOULD TAKE MUCH , MUCH LONGER THAN THE AGE OF UNIVERSE TO CRACK A MESSAGE ENCRYPTED USING IT.EVEN 20 YEARS FROM NOW, IF COMPUTERS ARE A MILLION TIMES FASTER. IT WOULD STILL TAKE LONGER THAN THE AGE OF THE UNIVERSE TO CRACK IT.