Information Technology General Knowledge

• What is Unicode? : Unicode provides a unique number for every character, no matter what the platform, no matter what the program, no matter what the language.
• IMEI number ? International Mobile Equipment Identity - the International Mobile Equipment Identity is a number, usually unique, to identify GSM, WCDMA, and iDEN mobile phones, as well as some satellite phones. It is usually found printed inside the battery compartment of the phone. It can also be displayed on the screen of the phone by entering *#06# into the keypad on most phones. The IMEI number is used by the GSM network to identify valid devices and therefore can be used for stopping a stolen phone from accessing the network in that country
• The First Email Message - Ray Tamilson implemented an email system in 1971 on the ARPANET.
• The First registered domain name - On 15 March 1985, the first commercial Internet domain name (.com) was registered under the name Symbolics.com by Symbolics Inc., a computer systems firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• The first smartphone - The first smartphone was the Nokia 9000 Communicator in 1996 which incorporated PDA functionality to the basic mobile phone at the time.
• The first website - Info.cern.ch was the address of the world's first-ever web site and web server, running on a NeXT computer at CERN (1990).
• The first Search Engine - Archie
• The first blog - Swarthmore student Justin Hall creates first blog ever, Links.net. 1994
• First items sold on eBay - It was a broken laser pointer for $14.83.
• The first Wikipedia edit - December 2008, Jimmy wales stated that he made Wikipedia's first edit, a test edit with the text "Hello, World!".The oldest article still preserved is the article UuU, created on 16 January 2001, at 21:08 UTC.
• The first YouTube video - The first YouTube video was entitled Me at the zoo, and shows founder Karim at the San Diego Zoo. The video was uploaded on April 23, 2005, and can still be viewed on the site. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw&feature=player_embedded
• The first tweet - Jack Dorsey is the creator, co-founder, and Chairman of Twitter, Inc. He sent out the first tweet, “Inviting co-workers.” March 2006.