Computer-related facts for Friday fun

Friday again! Time to relax a bit and read something for entertainment. Something like our today’s article.

If you want to know how many times a computer user blinks, how much you can get if you hack the Facebook site or what the first computer mouse was made of, head over these interesting computer related facts.

1. The term ‘computer’ originally referred to a person who performed numerical calculations, often with the help of a mechanical calculating device.
2. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be typed using the letters on one row of the keyboard.
3. The radio reached 50 million users in 38 years, the same took the television 13 years. The World Wide Web did it in only 4 years.
4. Facebook pays at least $500 if you can find a way to hack the site.
5. Computer programming is now one of the fastest growing careers.
6. On an average work day, a typist’s fingers travel 12.6 miles.
7. One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.
8. For every ‘normal’ webpage, there are five porn pages.
9. There are about 6,000 new computer viruses released every month.
10. A normal human being blinks 20 times in a minute, while a computer user blinks only 7 times a minute.
11. Of the 247 BILLION email messages sent every day, 81% are pure spam.
12. The first computer mouse, constructed in 1964, was made of wood.
13. By the end of 2012 there will be 17 billion devices connected to the internet.
14. The E-mail is older than the World Wide Web.
15. The first bug was a moth. In 1945, Grace Murray Hopper and his team are working on the computer calculator. And then the computer getting a problem, and after looking for the cause, there were bees at Relay # 70 in panel F. Since then the term bug is used as the damage in the computer work.