Blowfish12: Fact of the day: 14-07-2012

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Fact of the day: 14-07-2012

A whopping 11.5 million subscribers play World of Warcraft - that's more or less the population of Goa.

George Boole published his Mathematical Analysis of Logic, inventing Boolean algebra in 1854. This became the basis for computer design.

Almost 150 billion spams mails are sent out everyday, a carbon footprint of 17 million tons of CO2 every year. One in 12 million spam mails are replied to.

The microprocessor to make a real splash in the market was the Intel 8088, introduced in 1979 and incorporated into the IBM PC.

Blowfish12@2012 blowfish12.tk Author: Sudharsun. P. R.