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quote[0]="'MIDI' stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. It is a standard means of sending digitally encoded information about music between electronic devices, often between synthesizers and computers."
quote[1]="Time magazine named the computer its 'Man of the Year' in 1982."
quote[2]="A 1999 survey of 25,500 standard English-language dictionary words found that 93 percent of them have been registered as dot-coms."
quote[3]="A 2001 study conducted by PC Data and Information Resources Inc. showed that greeting cards, soup, breakfast cereal, and Imodium were among the most popular package goods bought online."
quote[4]="A chip of silicon a quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a full city block."
quote[5]="A computer on a chip that today costs $10 is equal in performance to systems costing $100,000 three decades ago."
quote[6]="A floppy disk drive on a home computer usually doesn't need to be cleaned more than twice a year. If used too often, cleaning disks can scratch recording heads and throw the disk drive out of adjustment."
quote[7]="A machine has been invented that can read printed English books aloud to the blind, and it can do so at speed half again as fast as normal speech."
quote[8]="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."
quote[9]="A telegram was sent to Eleanor Roosevelt from the 1939 World's Fair in New York using only the current of electric eels."
quote[10]="According to the New York Telephone Company, of the 398 million telephones in the world, more than one-third are in the United States."
quote[11]="Actress Sandra Bullock remarked in an interview, 'Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster.'"
quote[12]="After his death in 1937, Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of the wireless telegraph was honored by broadcasters worldwide as they let the airwaves fall silent for two minutes in his memory."
quote[13]="Although home access to the Internet has grown, the percentage of those users who are 'active' has been flat at 60 percent. Web companies are concerned that they are missing the mark in providing compelling content."
quote[14]="Although most Americans were not concerned about the impact Y2K would have on them personally at midnight on January 1, 2000, they showed greater concern about the effect it could have on others. According to a Gallup poll, 48 percent thought this computer problem would cause major problems around the world."
quote[15]="Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak earned money in college by selling <blue boxes> to other students a blue box attached to a pay telephone and created the proper signals to allow a user to make free phone calls."
quote[16]="As of 2000, about 94 million people in the United States owned a cell phone."
quote[17]="As of September 2000, San Francisco was Number 1 in the United States as the city with the highest percentage of homes with Internet access, at 65.6 percent."
quote[18]="Because the eyes work harder when viewing objects up close, particularly on a computer monitor, it is the proximity of the VDT screen to the eyes that causes eyestrain, not 'radiation' emitted from the screen. According to the American Academy of Ophthalmology, using a computer or video display terminal will not harm your eyes."
quote[19]="In computer-ese, 'WYSIWYG' is an acronym for 'What You See Is What You Get.'"
quote[20]="In Echallens, Switzerland in 1998, a 105-year-old retired Swiss teacher was ordered to attend elementary school, thanks to a computer that cut a century off his age. The mix-up happened because a list of local residents had only the last two digits of his birth date. So the man, along with sixty-five 5-year-olds in the town, received a letter ordering him to start school. The matter was taken care of, and the computer system was changed."
quote[21]="Bill Gates formed a company to sell a computerized traffic counting system to cities, which made $20,000 its first year. Business dropped sharply when customers learned Gates was only 14 years old."
quote[22]="Burning Pixel Productions created the net-famous Dancing Baby in October 1996. The popular, computer-generated, diaper-clad tot danced to many tunes, including 'Hooked on a Feeling' and 'The Macarena,' and gave birth to many other computer-generated dancing characters in the late 1990s."
quote[23]="Charles Thurber patented the first successful typewriter in August 1843."
quote[24]="Coast-to-coast direct-dial telephone service became available in the United States on November 10, 1951."
quote[25]="Computer crime has quadrupled over the past three years, according to a 2000 survey by the FBI and San Francisco's Computer Security Institute. Seventy-five percent of the hacking victims — most often corporations and government agencies — have found that it costs an average of $1 million per intrusion to investigate, repair, and secure their systems once they've been hacked."
quote[26]="Computer monitors need to stay cool. Unfortunately, they make handy resting places for various items. But if papers, manuals, and other miscellany are piled on top of the monitor, the cooling vents are blocked. Internal heat shortens the life of monitors."
quote[27]="In October 1994, Jeff Bezos wanted to name his new Web venture 'Cadabra' – as in 'abracadabra.' But his attorney convinced him that this magical moniker sounder a bit too much like 'cadaver.' Reluctantly, Bezos went with his second choice: Amazon.com."
quote[28]="In Rome, the world's first paved streets were laid out in 170 B.C. The new streets were popular as they were functional in all types of weather and were easier to keep clean, but they amplified the city's noise level."
quote[29]="In Saudi Arabia there are solar-powered pay phones in the desert."
quote[30]="In the United States, people play on their home computers more in the East and work more on them in the South and West, according to a survey from the NPD Group, Inc. market researchers."
quote[31]="In web site addresses on the Internet, 'http' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol.'"
quote[32]="Individual people, rather than publishers, generate most of the world’s original material. For instance, about 2,7000 photographs around the world are taken every second."
quote[33]="Computer viruses are bits of software code that either overwrite or attach themselves to programs and replicate themselves. While some are merely annoying, taking up valuable disk space, others can wipe out an entire hard drive. If the Michelangelo virus is on your computer, it activates on March 6, the artist's birthday. Viruses were first discovered in the late 1980s, and since that time, IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center has collected more than 10,000. It is estimated that six to nine new viruses are found daily. About 1,200 computer viruses are in circulation."
quote[34]="Computers and hard drives aren't as fragile as they were a few years ago, but you're asking for trouble if you move your PC around while it is running. While your computer is running, its hard disk is very vulnerable. A tiny magnet literally floats less than a hair's breadth above a platter where data is stored. A minor bump can send the magnet skittering into the disk's surface. The damage can't be repaired. Not only will you need a new hard disk, but you'll likely lose the information the disk held."
quote[35]="Despite the outcry from some anti-gambling lawmakers over the explosion of gambling on the Internet, fewer than one percent of American adults had used the Internet for gambling within the year of 1999."
quote[36]="Developed in 1950 by the then-called Zenith Radio Corporation, the first TV remote control was christened 'Lazy Bones.' Lazy Bones used a cable that ran from the TV set to the viewer."
quote[37]="Don't use the on/off switch on your personal computer any more than necessary. There's a surge of electricity every time the switch is turned on. For fragile computer chips, it's much like starting the day by jumping into an icy pool. To prolong the life of your home computer, turn it on when you arrive home from work and turn it off again when you go to bed at night."
quote[38]="During the height of the Y2K panic in 1999, the U.S. Federal Reserve released $200 billion to defend American banks from a mass cash withdrawal spurred by apocalyptic terror."
quote[39]="During the U.S. Civil War, telegraph wires were strung to follow and report on the action on the battlefield. But there was no telegraph office in the White House, so President Lincoln trekked across the street to the War Department to get the news."
quote[40]="The first satellite the United States launched into space was the Explorer 1 in 1958."
quote[41]="The first true calculator, the abacus, originated in China during the sixth century B.C. Its stone-like beads, shifted along vertical strings, enabled the Chinese to perform basic arithmetical operations with speed and accuracy, the test of a true computer. About 200 years after it was used by the Chinese, the abacus caught on in several Mediterranean civilizations."
quote[42]="The first video game was Pong, introduced in 1972 by Noel Bushnell, who then created Atari."
quote[43]="The images on a computer screen are made up of more than 5,000 pixels, or dots, per square inch."
quote[44]="It was recently reported that the technology contained in a single Game Boy unit in 2000 exceeded all the computer power that was used to put the first man on the Moon."
quote[45]="Laptop computers and briefcases falling from the overhead bins onto passengers' heads may be the most common accident aboard an airplane."
quote[46]="ENIAC, the first electronic computer, appeared 50 years ago. The original ENIAC was about 80 feet long, weighed 30 tons, had 17,000 tubes. By comparison, a desktop computer today can store a million times more information than an ENIAC, and is 50,000 times faster."
quote[47]="Ever image-conscious, MCI unveiled a new logo in March 1996, the fourth in the firm's 26-year history. The logo was tested in 40 languages — including Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and Arabic — to make sure there were no hidden meanings or offensive references."
quote[48]="Excluding gasoline, the four basic fluids in a car are motor oil, transmission fluid, coolant, and wiper fluid."
quote[49]="Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair."
quote[50]="From the smallest microprocessor to the biggest mainframe, the average American depends on more than 264 computers per day."
quote[51]="The Los Angeles Police Department uses a special computer program called HITMAN. HITMAN stands for 'Homicide Tracking Management Automation Network,' and aides police in solving murders."
quote[52]="Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, launched his business career in 1969, at age 14 by forming a company named Lakeside Programming Group. Gates and his friend Paul Allen signed an agreement with Computer Center Corporation to report bugs in PDP-10 software, in exchange for computer time."
quote[53]="The most common uses of computers on the job in 1996 were: Bookkeeping and invoicing (45 percent), word processing (44 percent), communications (39 percent), analysis/spreadsheets (36 percent), and data bases (35 percent)."
quote[54]="Most of the information available now is created by individuals instead of businesses. With e-mail transmissions alone, people are creating 500 times as much information as is contained in the total of all Web pages in existence."
quote[55]="The profile of the average computer virus writer is age 14-24, talented, bright, and driven by a rebellious, adolescent need to call attention to himself."
quote[56]="Nanotechnology has produced a guitar no bigger than a blood cell. The guitar, 10 micrometers long, has six strummable strings."
quote[57]="Nearly 60 percent of women say they receive at least eleven e-mails a day, whereas only 49 percent of men say they do."
quote[58]="Herman Hollerith used a computer-like device named 'The Hollerith Tabulator' to take the U.S. Census in 1890, long before UNIVAC."
quote[59]="Not until Herbert Hoover was U.S. president, in 1929, did the U.S. chief executive have a private telephone in his office. (The telephone had been invented 53 years earlier.) The booth in a White House hallway had served as the president's private phone before one was installed in the Oval office."
quote[60]="The United States will conduct a census in the year 2000. The first U.S. census to be tallied by computer was in 1950. UNIVAC did the tallying."
quote[61]="The Vatican first went online with its web site in 1996. The site is powered by three host computers named after archangels -- Raphael, Michael and Gabriel."
quote[62]="On March 13, 1951, Western Union demonstrated the High Speed Fax, transmitting printed matter over microwave radio beams at a rate of 3,000 words per minute."
quote[63]="IBM was incorporated in 1911 as the Computer-Tabulating-Recording Co., and had a product line that included time clocks, scales, and punch card tabulators. The company's name was changed in 1924. IBM stands for International Business Machines."
quote[64]="If you bought one of the first clunky calculators way back in the 1970s — and still have it — you may be in luck. Collectors are beginning to show interest in those oversized dinosaurs. It is anticipated that the first Game Boys — put out by Nintendo in 1990 — will likely be collectors' items in just a few years."
quote[65]="There are exactly 1,048,576 bytes in one megabyte. Half a byte is called a 'nybble.'"
quote[66]="Party lines are telephone lines shared by more than one household. While there are no exact numbers available as to how many remain in the United States, it's estimated that there are as few as 5,000 out of 167 million access lines. No phone company offers new party-line service; existing party lines are gradually being converted to singly party lines."
quote[67]="There are hefty pricetags on some Internet domain names. The highest-selling domain name to date, business.com, went for $7.5 million in 1999. The buyer was eCompanies."
quote[68]="There are more than 200 satellites orbiting Earth solely for the purpose of private communications services, including pagers, telephones, and computers."
quote[69]="Peter de Jager was the world's foremost expert on the Y2K computer problem that many believed would cause computer systems to collapse because their software mistook the double zeroes of 2000 to mean 1900. He wrote the 'Doomsday 2000' article that initially publicized the problem, then spent the 1990s helping companies all over the world fix their computers. De Jager's Web site, www.year2000.com, was the world's clearing house for Y2K bug-related information. When at midnight, January 1, 2000, planes did not fall from the sky, de Jager was angrily accused of setting the hysterical stage for billions of dollars to be wasted."
quote[70]="There are two radios for every man, woman, and child in the United States."
quote[71]="Thirty-two percent of computer data loss cases are due to human error."
quote[72]="Rob Glaser’s new company, Progressive Networks, launched the RealAudio system on April 10, 1995, enabling anyone with point-and-click access to the Internet to have access to audio. Users needed a multimedia PC, a fast-for-the-time (14.4k) modem, and a direct connection to the 'Net.'"
quote[73]="In 1911 there were a mere 303,000 telephones in use in Canada. These days there are more than 18 million."
quote[74]="In 1950, Aircall, Inc. of New York City became the first U.S. company to introduce a commercial radio paging service."
quote[75]="In 1952, CBS made computer history by being the first to use a computer, the UNIVAC I, to forecast the U.S. presidential election."
quote[76]="In 1970, 'MCI' stood for 'Microwave Communications, Inc.' No longer used as an acronym, it now stands alone."
quote[77]="In 1979, Namco released Pac-Man, the most popular arcade game of all time. Over 300,000 units were sold worldwide. More than 100,000 units were sold in the United States alone. Originally named 'Puck Man,' the game was retitled after executives saw the potential for vandals to scratch out part of the letter 'P' on the game's marquee, which might discourage parents from letting their children play. Pac-Man became the first video game to be popular with both males and females."
quote[78]="In 1995, the average U.S. public school contained 72 computers."
quote[79]="In 2000, Internet use since 1998 has tripled in Hong Kong. According to the South China Morning Post, the time spent online averaged out to almost seven minutes for every Hong Kong resident."
quote[80]="Twenty-five percent of Americans with e-mail accounts say they 'very often' use e-mail in place of a phone call for non-work related, personal communication."
quote[81]="Some Chinese typewriters have 5,700 characters. The keyboard is almost 3 feet wide on some models, and the fastest one can type on these machines is 11 words per minute."
quote[82]="Visitors to Japan should know that the country's electricity runs on 100V; half of the nation north of the Oi River operates on 50 Hz and the southern portion on 60 Hz, which is the same as that used in the United States."
quote[83]="Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are best known as the creators of the Apple computer, but before they became P.C. technology darlings, they designed a popular arcade game for Atari called 'Breakout.'"
quote[84]="Television broadcasts were suspended until the end of World War II in 1945. This delayed the development of an affordable television system until the late 1940s."
quote[85]="Television once had a Channel 1, but lost it in 1945 to people with mobile radios when the F.C.C. decided TV was taking up too much of the broadcast spectrum."
quote[86]="Texas Instruments developed the first popular computer-based toy. It was called 'Speak and Spell.'"
quote[87]="The 'Dilbert Zone' web site was the first syndicated comic strip site available on the Internet, and was one of the first web sites to realize a profit. The site was managed by United Media."
quote[88]="The 'save' icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutters on backwards."
quote[89]="The Associated Press introduced the first system for routinely transmitting 'wire photos' in 1934."
quote[90]="You can’t use a U.S. computer monitor in Australia because the colors would be wrong. The magnetic field of the earth pulling the electron beams hitting the cathode tube to a position relative to its position in the magnetic field."
quote[91]="The average wired adult will spend 5.3 percent of the rest of his or her life online, according to research firm Cyber Dialogue, based on an extensive survey of Internet users. The study's results showed that the average adult online today will spend a total of 23.5 months of his or her life online. That’s 17,500 hours."
quote[92]="The device that switches off the ringer on a Japanese cell phone is called the 'manners button,' and its LCD icon is a heart."
quote[93]="The first cableship was the Goliath, chartered to lay a telegraph cable across the English Channel in 1850."
quote[94]="The first digital image editing software was called PhotoMac."
quote[95]="The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com. The domain name was registered on March 15, 1985 by Symbolics Technology, Inc. Seven of the first ten domain names registered went to Universities."
quote[96]="The first electronic digital computer weighed 30 tons."
quote[97]="The popular LINUX operating system was originally written by Linus Torvalds."
quote[98]="The first EMAIL program was written by Ray Tomlinson to send short messages to people on other computers. It was further developed by others to become the most popular application on the Internet."
quote[99]="The largest LINUX machine is being built by Linux Networx for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. It consists of a cluster of 1920 Intel Xeon processors and will be among the 10 most powerful computers in the world."

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