SearchSAP.com will have you know...
Here you'll find the year's top five factoids -- silly, interesting and altogether useless facts from SearchSAP.com's feature in Tuesday's e-newsletters. What's your New Year's resolution -- no more procrastinating?
1. In 1943, Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, predicted that there was probably a world
market for only five computers.
(Source: www.amusingfacts.com)
2. A NUKE InterNETWORK poll found that 52 percent of Internet users have cut back on
watching TV in order to spend more time online; 12 percent have cut back on seeing friends.
(Source:www.coolquiz.com)
3. The search engine Google got its name from the word "googol," which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it. (Source: www.uselessfacts.net)
4. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are best known as the creators of the Apple computer, but
before they became PC technology darlings, they designed a popular arcade game for Atari called
Breakout.
(Source: www.coolquiz.com)
5. The words "electronic mail" might sound new, but the term was introduced almost 30
years ago. Queen Elizabeth of Britain sent her first e-mail in 1976.
(Source: www.didyouknow.cd/index.html)
This was first published in December 2005
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