Funfacts

• 1. On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.

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  2. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

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  3. 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women

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  4. In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator*.

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  5. The world's first computer, called the Z1, was invented by Konrad Zuse in 1936. His next invention, the Z2 was finished in 1939 and was the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer.

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  6. The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.

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  7. Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.

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  8. There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.

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  9. The first banner advertising was used in 1994.

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  10. E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.

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  11. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.

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  12. One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.

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  13. The average 21 year old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games, has exchanged 250,000 e-mails, instant and text messages and has spent 10,000 hours on the mobile phone.

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  14. By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.

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  15. MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.

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  16. 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.

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  17. There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.

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  18. For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.

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  19. Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.

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  20. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.

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  21. Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'!

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