Bill Gates and other investors have secured a doomsday seed vault that contains Earth s life in case of apocalypse
Bill Gates and other investors have secured a doomsday seed vault that contains Earth s life in case of apocalypse
Laptop computers are 30% more likely to fail than desktop computers simply because they get bumped around a lot more
After spending hours working at a computer display look at a blank piece of white paper It will probably appear pink
Whenever a YouTube video is buffering or is paused one can play a game of Snake by hitting the Up arrow on the keyboard
Microsoft s TerraServer database stores more than one terabyte (1 000 gigabytes) of detailed aerial and satellite photos
There are an estimated 800 million web pages available on the web and experts estimate the web doubles in size every 8 months
The term `Hypertext` was coined in 1965 by Ted Nelson who used it to describe the multimedia system he proposed called `Xanadu`
Getting only 5 or less hours of sleep doubles your chances of heart attack Turning off your TV and computer at night can benefit you
The IBM RAMAC 305 in 1956 stored 5 megabytes of data which cost 10 000 per megabyte Compared to today at less than a buck a megabyte
Moore`s Law states that computer performance doubles every 18 to 24 months and ever since Intel s 4004 chip in 1971 this has been true
In 1943 Navy officer Grace Hopper had no choice but to fix a computer glitch manually The source of the problem? A moth Hence the term computer bug
The first personal computer was called the Altair and was made by a company called MITS in 1974 It came in a kit and had to be assembled by the use
1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic is the most expensive car in the world In 2010 Mullin Automotive Museum purchased it from Dr Peter Williamson s estate for between 30M and 40M