HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple have one thing in common – apart from the obvious that they are IT companies. They were all started in garages.
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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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CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
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There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.
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The longest-running legal battle for a domain name is believed to be the fight for PETA.org. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sued People Eating Tasty Animals to obtain the name – the case spanned from 1995 to 2001.
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There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.
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20 years ago, there were only 130 websites, Google wasn't around, and you had to pay for an email account through an ISP.
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