Most Amazing facts about Computers and IT Field

1. A byte means 8 bits and a nibble means 4 bits.
2. First hard disk available was of 5 MB.
3. Ethernet is the registered trademark of Xerox.
4. Google uses over 10000 network computers to crawl the web.
5. Google can be queried in 26 languages.
6. The floppy disk was patented by Allen Shugart in 1946.
7. More than 80% of web pages are in English.
8. 88% percent web pages have very low traffic rate.
9. An average american is dependent on 250 computers.
10. Internet is most fastest growing platform for advertisement.
11. About one third of CD's are pirated.
12. About 76% softwares used in India are pirated.
13. Only 10% of the webpages are used by the search engines.
14. "I am feeling Lucky" This button is used by negligible number of people on net.
15. Bill gates & Paul Allen started a company called Traf-O-Data to monitor traffic flow.
16. The four largest software makers in the world are:
      (a) Microsoft (b) Adobe (c) Sap (d) Computer Associates.
17. Top Ten Supercomputers of Today's Generation Arranged according to the speed:
     1. Bluegene/ L DD2 Beta-system (IBM).
     2. Columbia (NASA).
     3. Earth Simulator (NEC). 
     4. MareNostrum(Bar celona Supercomputer Center).
     5. Thunder (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory).
     6. ASCI Q (Los Alamos National Laboratory).
     7. System X(Virgina Tech).
     8. Blugene/L DD1 Prototype (IBM).
     9. eServer pSeries 655 cluster (Naval Oceanographic Office). 
     10. Tungsten(National Center For Supercomputing Applications)