It’s Friday so why not kick it off with some tech facts. Did you know?

1. Jobs credited a calligraphy course at Reed with inspiring some of the Mac’s elegant features.

2. Bill Gates’ house was designed using a Macintosh Computer

3. The first banner advertising was used in 1994.

4. 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.

5. Facebook pays at least $500 if you can find a way to hack the site.

6. While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.

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

8. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.

9. The average 21 year old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games, has exchanged 250,000 e-mails, instant and text messages and has spent 10,000 hours on the mobile phone.

10. Computer programming is now one of the fastest growing careers.