Facts about information Technology

1. 51% of internet traffic is “non-human”. 31% is made up from hacking programs, spammers and malicious phishing
2. A new identification system for the internet launches this week which means there can be trillions of new unique addresses made.
3. It would take 1,000,000 human brains to store all of the information that can be found on the internet.
4. A rare functioning Apple 1 computer – the company’s first product – has been sold at an auction for $374,500 (£240,929).
5. IBM’s Sequoia has taken the top spot on the list of the world’s fastest supercomputers for the US.
6. The first computer was almost 2.5 metres (8ft) high and weighed nearly 30,000kg – more than 600 times heavier than an average computer today.
7. Programmer Charley Kline sent the first computer-to-computer message in 1969; only the first two letters got through before the system crashed.  Today, over 80 billion emails are sent a day worldwide
8. Just one gigabyte (GB) in computer memory is the equivalent to storing a stack of documents that would reach around the height of an average two storey house. The average computer has around 100GB of memory.
9. IBM currently has the biggest data drive. At 120 petabytes, it can store 24 billion songs or back up the entire web 60 times.
10. The QWERTY layout used for English language computer keyboards is 135 years old.  It was originally invented for a new form of typewriter.
11. The first portable computer, the Osborne I, weighed 11.88kg (1stone 12lbs) and three ounces, and measured 52 cm (20.5 inches) wide.
12. The processor in the first Apple computer (the Apple I) is 1,000 times slower than today’s Apple iPad.