30 Interesting Computer Facts That Will Blow Your Mind :-
There are a whole lot of interesting computer facts that are still dug down deep inside. However, for the present situation, we still have a good number of interesting facts about a computer that you probably did not know before.
1. Have you heard about the computer who can tell whether the smile is fake or real? Trust me, it is not a rumor. It is true, and a computer system developed at MIT can do that.
2. The first 1 GB hard drive was announced by IBM in 1980 which had a price tag of $40,000!
3. The US is at the highest risk of Virus attack followed by Russia Federation.
4. The 12 engineers who made IBM PC were named as “The Dirty Dozen”.
5. The first microprocessor 4004 which literally set the path for the modern computing era was developed by Intel. Surprisingly, it was meant to be used for a calculator. And, then it evolved.
6. You will not be affected by viruses just by opening an email. It is only activated when you click a link or access an attachment.
7. According to various statistical analysis, it is a fact that more than 80% emails sent are spam!
8. MyDoom was the fastest-spreading virus ever created. The total damage done by MyDoom is a whopping $38 billion.
9. If Xerox Alto (the first computer to support an Operating System based on a Graphical User Interface) would not have been designed, Apple Macintosh probably would have never existed.
10. QWERTY keyboard is not the most efficient keyboard layout. Instead, Dvorak keyboard is.
11. Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon are all powered by Linux. Yes, Linux is not among the most popular OS for the general consumers. But, Linux leads the Industry.
12. HotWired, now known as Wired.com , invented the web banner advertisement concept.
13. The first web browser was invented in 1990 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. It was called as the “WorldWideWeb” (not to be confused with WWW). Later, it was renamed as the “Nexus“.
14. The first website that went online was "info.cern.ch", which was also created by Tim Berners-Lee at the research lab CERN 1990.
15. To make users familiar with the graphical user interface (newly introduced then), Microsoft packed in the Solitaire game along with the operating system to let the users learn about controlling the movements and operations that can be done a mouse while utilizing the cursor to drag and drop the cards.
16. The first computer (which was in essence – a mechanical computer) had no RAM.
17. Scroll Lock key is the least utilized key on a keyboard. Many believe that it’s completely useless.
18. The Z1 was the first fully operational digital computer developed by Konrad Zuse in 1936. In 1939, he created the Z2 as the first electro-mechanical computer in the world. While Charles Babbage is being considered as the “father of the computer”, Zuse can be considered as the inventor of the “modern computer”.
19. The first hard drives available were even bigger than a commercial fridge – another computer facts by which you will get amazed.
20. A normal human being blinks around 20 times a minute. But, when compared to a computer user, they blink just 7 times a minute on an average. Simply, we tend to concentrate more on the screen, so we usually blink a lot less in front of a computer than we do normally.
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21. Microsoft’s project to develop a new operating system was code-named “Interface Manager”. However, they found the term “Windows” more appealing, so they decided to name it – “Windows” but not “Interface Manager”.
22. Only about 10% of the world’s currency is physical money, the rest only exists on computers.
23. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that you can write using the letters only on one row of the keyboard of your computer.
24. Doug Engelbart invented the first computer mouse in around 1964 which was made of wood!
25. HP, Microsoft and Apple have one very interesting thing in common – they were all started in a garage.
26. ENIAC was the first electronic computer which was weighed around 27 tons and it’s taken up space around 1800 SF. (square feet).
27. Do you know what CAPTCHA is? I hope you know that but do you know this is the abbreviation of ‘Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart’.
28. Do you own a website or blog? ‘www.symbolics.com’, this was the first domain name ever!
29. Every minute, 10 hours of videos are uploaded on You Tube!!
30. The woman who rented her garage to Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 when they were creating Google later became the CEO of YouTube.
Did you know most of them? If yes, Congratulations! If no, you got something new to learn. Right?
So what are you waiting for?
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