Information Technology – Fascinating Facts You Didn’t Know You Wanted to Know

Information Technology – Fascinating Facts You Didn’t Know You Wanted to Know

 

Some interesting facts about IT, but I think my favour has to be – A computer byte stems from bite, (the smallest chunk of data a computer could bite at once.) Traditionally, half a byte is a nybble.

And some more -
51% of internet traffic is “non-human”. 31% is made up from hacking programs, spammers and malicious phishing

A new identification system for the internet launches this week which means there can be trillions of new unique addresses made.

It would take 1,000,000 human brains to store all of the information that can be found on the internet.
A rare functioning Apple 1 computer – the company’s first product – has been sold at an auction for $374,500 (£240,929).

IBM’s Sequoia has taken the top spot on the list of the world’s fastest supercomputers for the US.

The first computer was almost 2.5 metres (8ft) high and weighed nearly 30,000kg – more than 600 times heavier than an average computer today.

Programmer Charley Kline sent the first computer-to-computer message in 1969; only the first two letters got through before the system crashed.  Today, over 80 billion emails are sent a day worldwide

Just one gigabyte (GB) in computer memory is the equivalent to storing a stack of documents that would reach around the height of an average two storey house. The average computer has around 100GB of memory.

IBM currently has the biggest data drive. At 120 petabytes, it can store 24 billion songs or back up the entire web 60 times.

The QWERTY layout used for English language computer keyboards is 135 years old.  It was originally invented for a new form of typewriter.

The first portable computer, the Osborne I, weighed 11.88kg (1stone 12lbs) and three ounces, and measured 52 cm (20.5 inches) wide.

The processor in the first Apple computer (the Apple I) is 1,000 times slower than today’s Apple iPad.
Apple’s first computer, the Apple 1 (1976), did not include a keyboard, monitor, or case and was basically an assembled circuit board. The Apple II was introduced on April 16, 1977, and has been widely credited with popularizing the home computer.

Londoner Jonathan Ive (1967- ) designed the iMac, the iPod, and the iPhone. In 1999, he was named as one of the world’s top 100 inventors under the age of 35.

Google uses over 1 million computers for is operation and handles over 1 billion search requests—per day.
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.

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