Fact for the day: 30-06-2012

One million domain names are registered every month!!!

In a recent survey conducted by security specialist Symantec of the 100 most unsafe and malware infested web sites, 48 per cent of them feature adult content.

Bit torrents, depending on location, are estimated to consume 27 to 55 per cent of all internet bandwidth as of February 2009.

Domain registration was free until the National Science Foundation decided to change this on September 14th, 1995.

Employees at Google are encouraged to use 20 percent of their time working on their own projects. Google News, Orkut are both examples of projects that grew from this working model.

Someone is a victim of a cybercrime every 10 seconds, and it is on the rise.

The first software to be imported from Soviet Union to the US was Tetris, developed by Alexey Pazhitov in 1985.

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

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Fact for the day: 28-06-2012

The chairman of IBM Thomas Watson infamously predicted that there was a total world market of only 5 computers!!!!!!!!

All the three letter word combinations from aaa.com to zzz.com are already registered as domain names.

The microprocessor was invented in 1971. The creation was considered a computer on a chip.

Jim Knopf is known as the 'father of shareware'. The first shareware program was PC-FILE, in 1982 which Knopf published under the pseudonym Jim Button.

The first digital camera was designed by a Kodak engineer by the name of Steven Sasson. It weight 3.6 kg and was the size of a toaster.

In 1995, Iomega Corp went from $3.5 a share to $48.63 for a gain of 1396%. This made it the company to have the greatest percentage gain of all NASFAQ high-tech stocks ever.

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