One-third of the world population has never made a phone call.
Computer performance increased by about a factor of a million between 1950 and 1990
There are 6,000 new computer virus's released every month.
The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built the first Apple computers from parts they got for free from their
employers. They originally approached their employers with their idea for a 'personal computer', but they
were rebuffed. They were actually encouraged to scrounge spare parts from work and complete their project
in their spare time
Thomas Watson, founder of IBM, is sometimes quoted as asserting that the world would probably never
need more than 5 computers. He was referring, of course, to main frame computers, which his company
built.
The recording density for data ( aka capacity) has increased 60,000,000-fold in 50 years.
A picture may be worth a thousand words but it uses up a thousand times more memory
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