Tech-Facts
1.Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) was designed in 1973.2. Satyam Online become the first private ISP in December 1998 to offer Internet connections in India.
3. It took 13 years for television to reach 50 million users- it took the Internet less than 4 years.
4. In 2003 an Atlanta- base ISP called Earthlink won a lawsuit worth $16.4 million (US) against a spammer in Buffalo NY, and a $25 million (US) lawsuit against a spammer in Tennessee.
04sept2006
Bill Gates' $50 million residence (drafted by Seattle architectural firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson) was designed on Macintosh computers.
Microsoft doesn't even use (Windows) NT on their own Web site. They use Unix.(Larry Ellison in USA Today, 12/10/01)
Bill Gates did not "invent" DOS, the operating system that begat Windows. His company bought code called QDOS ("Quick and Dirty Operating System") and polished it.("The Six Serendipities of Microsoft")
Until Windows 98, MS' operating system did not even perform such simple checks as verifying that there is enough space on a volume before copying data to it. For example, if you accidentally told it to, Windows would begin copying your 900 MB hard drive onto your 1.4 MB floppy disk.
05sept2006
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ENIAC, the first all-electronic computer, was introduced in 1946.
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The Internet has been around since the 1960's.
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Banner ads first appeared in 1994.
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E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
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"Surfing" the Web - this phrase was coined in 1992.
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Lynx was one of the earliest browsers from 1992. It was used for text-based navigation. Now most people use either Netscape's Navigator or Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
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The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
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