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.