The world pretty much revolves around the "Digital Age" now. It's hard to walk around and find anyone without a "smart phone" of any type. Here's some fun facts you may not know:
- The very first computer "mouse" was made in 1964 by a man named Doug Engelbert. The fascinating thing: it was wooden!
- In the original arcade Donkey Kong game, Mario was actually called Jumpman and he was a carpenter, not a plumber.
- By July 2008, GOOGLE had indexed over 1 trillion (1,000,000,000,000) pages on the Internet! And we wonder why it's hard to write about subjects that haven't been written yet.
- The maximum score you could possibly achieve in a game of PAC-MAN 3,333,360 points. That's a lot of quarters!
- GOOGLE incorporated in 1998.
- A normal human being blinks about 20 times per minute. Someone using a computer typically tends to blink only 7 times a minute.
- 1 out of every 8 married couples in the United States in 2012 met online. So E-harmony wasn't lying!
- Facebook pays at least $500 dollars if you can actually figure out how to hack the site.
- HP, GOOGLE, MICROSOFT AND APPLE were all started in garages.
- For every "1" normal webpage, there are 5 porn pages!
- On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 Miles!
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