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CD
  • When the cd was invented, it was decided that a cd should be long enough to hold beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at any tempo which was precisely 72 minutes

computer data
  • One terabyte(1000 gigabytes) is equivalent to storing a stack of documents that is more than 16 times the height of New York’s empire state building
  • 50 gigabytes of information can hold up to 3 piles of single spaced typed pages that is taller than the Eiffel tower
  • According to the university of california 1,693,000 terabytes of information are produced & stored magnetically per year

Apple computer
  • Macquariums are aquariams made from old macintosh computers
  • Apple Inc is richer than the United States of America

gameboy
  • The technology contained in a single game boy unit in 2000 exceeds all the computing power that was used to put the first man on moon in 1969

virus, computer
  • Storm botnet are remotely controlled conputers linked via the Storm Worm (Trojan) and in September 2007 is estimated to control up to 50 million computers. It was potentially more powerful than the world’s super computers

ipod
  • In 2006, 2 in 3 mp3 players were iPods
  • The iPod chip is not produced by Apple. It is from Portal Player
  • The designer of the iPod, Jonathan Ive, was voted more influential than JK Rowlings
  • The Queen owned her i-Pod in June 2005

Mario
  • Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America’s landlord, Mario Segali

Y2K
  • The term Y2K was invented by David Eddie in June 1995 through the email
  • It was so feared that Clinton signed the Y2K Act in 1999 to limit the government’s liability
  • 1 in 10 people in the US believed that there will be another depression, that financial markets will collapse, that the national infrastructure will be crippled, and that martial law will be declared in some local areas. from Newsweek May4, 1998 p62
  • In making coding “Y2K complaint”, new errors are introduced at an average rate of one new error in every 14 lines of re-written code

Microsoft
  • The “save” icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards. Thanx Gwynovere C.
  • Some Microsoft programmers who left the company went on to become a cattle rancher, the creator of the Cabbage Patch Dolls, a “professional volunteer” and the founder of a software company


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