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Computer Facts
1 : Alaska is the only State in America that can be typed on one row of a traditional English QWERTY keyboard.
2 : The apple II had a Hard Drive of only 5 Megabytes when it was launched.
3 : In General, People tend to read as much as 10 % slower from a screen than from paper.
4 : Ubuntu is one of the most popular distributions of Linux. The word Ubuntu comes from a African word meaning “I Am Because Of You”.
5 : The name “Macintosh” was inspired by an Apple with the name “Mcintosh”.
6 : In 1932 Professor August Dvorak created the DVORAK keyboard, which was made to be superior to the standard QWERTY keyboard.
7 : Doug Engelbart created the very first computer mouse from wood in 1964.
8 : Christopher Sholes invented the QWERTY keyboard in 1868.
9 : The Apple Lisa was the first commercial computer with a Graphical User Interface (GUI) and a Mouse.
10 : The Apple Lisa was released in June 1983.
11 : In 1822, Charles Babbage created the first Computer.
12 : 1024 Gigabytes (GB) is equal to 1 Terabyte (TB).
13 : 1024 Terabytes (TB) is equal to 1 Petabyte (PB).
14 : 1 Petabyte can hold 13.3 Years of HD-Tv Videos.
15 : 86 % of people try to plug their USB device upside down.
Video Game Facts
1 : Since 2008, Video Games have outsold DVD’s each year.
2 : Microsoft IIIrd Xbox console is the Xbox One and was released on 22nd November 2013.
3 : The average US gamer is 35 years old.
4 : Mario was actually named after the landlord of Nintendo’s first warehouse Mr. Mario Segale.
5 : Pac-Man was invented by the designer Toru Iwatani while he was eating pizza.
6 : The video game industry is valued at 70 Billion Dollars worldwide.
7 : Two-thirds of American households play games 60% are male, 40% are female.
8 : The first gaming console to ever ship with an internal memory was the SEGA Saturn and it shipped with about one megabyte of memory.
9 : The best-selling consoles of all time are the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo DS both tied with an about 155 million units sold.
10 : Atari is a Japanese word that actually means success.
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12 : In the original arcade version of Donkey Kong, Mario was called jump man and he was a carpenter, not a plumber.
These are some Interesting facts about Computers and Video Games.