| 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 user. |
| The forward slash character on your keyboard is also known as a slant, virgule or solidus |
| The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of 5 Megabytes |
| 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. |
| SGI`s Blue Mountain super computer at Los Alamos has 1.5 terabytes of RAM, more than any other computer on earth. |
| There are an estimated 800 million web pages available on the web and experts estimate the web doubles in size every 8 months. |
| Microsoft's TerraServer database stores more than one terabyte (1,000 gigabytes) of detailed aerial and satellite photos. |
| 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. |
| The term `Hypertext` was coined in 1965 by Ted Nelson who used it to describe the multimedia system he proposed called `Xanadu` |
| In 1998, 9.4 billion E-mail messages were sent per day. |