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On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles. |
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The Dvorak keyboard is more efficient than QWERTY. 20 times faster, in fact. |
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TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. |
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On eBay, there is an average of $680 worth of transactions each second. |
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"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. |
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80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women |
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In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator*. |
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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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The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood. |
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Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month. |
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There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide. |
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The first banner advertising was used in 1994. |
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E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web. |
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The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20. |
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One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online. |
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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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By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet. |
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MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico. |
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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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There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet. |
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For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages. |
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Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer. |
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The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com. |
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Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'! |
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