Interesting Facts About Technology

1. A nanosecond (ns or nsec) is one billionth (10-9) of a second and is a common measurement of read or write access time to random access memory.

2. The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of 5megabytes.

3. 90% of our technology, upon which we base so much of our modern lifestyle, was created within the last 150 years.

4. Interesting ! Iceland has the highest concentration of broadband users in the world.

5. The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.

6. Back in the mid to late 1980's, an IBM-compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.

7. 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S.