Mind Blowing Computer Facts !

Here are some computer related facts that you might find interesting :-

• Ubuntu is one of the more popular distributions of linux. The word ubuntu comes from an ancient African word meaning 'humanity to others'. It also means 'I am what I am because of who we all are'.

• A red panda is an animal native to the himalayas and southwestern china. The english word for red panda is “Firefox” which is where the browser gets its name from, but the logo is actually a fox.!

• The QWERTY keyboard layout is 129 years old.

• The first white house website was launched during the clinton-Gore administration on october 21, 1994. coincidentally, the site was linked to a pornography web site.

• The code name for the 12 engineers who designed the IBM pc was “The dirty dozen.”

• over 6,000 new computer viruses are released every month.

• Russian scientist Vladimir Lukyanov built a computer ran water.it was the world's first computer for solving partial differential equations.

• The first ever registered domain name was Symbolics.com for free.

• The first mobile phone call was made in 1973 by Martin Cooper, a former Motorola inventor.

• A normal human blinks 20 times a minute, whereas, a computer user blinks only 7 times a minute!.