Computer Facts

• The Dvorak keyboard is more efficient than QWERTY. 20 times faster, in fact.
•  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.
• The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
•  E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
•  The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.
• MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico. Whereas, if Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest.