did you know that...

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

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

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

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

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

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

• The first computer mouse,invented by douglas engalbart was made of wood.

• 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.

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

• The QWERTY keyboard layout is over 130 years old.

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• Approximately 365 million people have computers in the world, but half of the world’s population have never seen or used a TELEPHONE.