HP, Google, Microsoft and Apple have one thing in common apart from the obvious that they

are IT
companies. They were all started in garages.

E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.

The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in 1964 and was made of wood.

Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.

There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts world-wide.

Although we normally think of computers as the ones we use in our everyday lives to surf the web, write
documents etc, small computers are also embedded into other things such as mobile phones, toys,
microwaves and MP3 players. We use computers all the time, often without even knowing it!

Despite all the positive benefits of cell phones, there are also some negative side effects which include
the dangers of cell phones being used while driving, cell phones being used for harassment and students
cheating on tests by using their cell phone to access information. Cell phones are often banned in
classrooms or other school locations due to the distractions they can cause.

One of the best and most common ways of finding information on the web is through the use of search
engines such as Google and Bing. Google is currently the most popular search engine, receiving
hundreds of millions of search queries every day.