Computers have become a very important part of our daily life. This awesome machine changed our lives in so many ways. There are lots of interesting interesting facts about computer that I thought you would be interested in.
1. The first electronic computer ENIAC weighed more than 27 tons and took up 1800 square feet.
2. Only about 10% of the world’s currency is physical money, the rest only exists on computers.
3. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that you can write using the letters only on one row of the keyboard of your computer.
4. Doug Engelbart invented the first computer mouse in around 1964 which was made of wood.
5. There are more than 5000 new computer viruses are released every month.
6. Around 50% of all Wikipedia vandalism is caught by a single computer program with more than 90% accuracy.
7. If there was a computer as powerful as the human brain, it would be able to do 38 thousand trillion operations per second and hold more than 3580 terabytes of memory.
8. The password for the computer controls of nuclear tipped missiles of the U.S was 00000000 for eight years.
9. Approximately 70% of virus writers are said to work under contract for organized crime syndicates.
10. HP, Microsoft and Apple have one very interesting thing in common – they were all started in a garage.
11. An average person normally blinks 20 times a minute, but when using a computer he/she blinks only 7 times a minute.
12. The house where Bill Gates lives, was designed using a Macintosh computer.
13. The first ever hard disk drive was made in 1979, and could hold only 5MB of data.
14. The first 1GB hard disk drive was announced in 1980 which weighed about 550 pounds, and had a price tag of $40,000.
15. More than 80% of the emails sent daily are spams.
16. A group of 12 engineers designed IBM PC and they were called as “The Dirty Dozen”.
17. The original name of windows was Interface Manager.
18. The first microprocessor created by Intel was the 4004. It was designed for a calculator, and in that time nobody imagined where it would lead.
19. IBM 5120 from 1980 was the heaviest desktop computer ever made. It weighed about 105 pounds, not including the 130 pounds external floppy drive.
20. Genesis Device demonstration video in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was the the first entirely computer generated movie sequence in the history of cinema. That studio later become Pixar.
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21. CAPTCHA is an acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”
22. In some countries during the 70s, including the United Kingdom, Poland, Hungary, and the Netherlands, cassette data storage was so popular that some radio stations would broadcast computer programs that listeners could record onto cassette and then load into their computer.
23. There is a Scandinavian company that is working on a way to translate what a dog is thinking using EEG-sensors and microcomputers. They already have a prototype available.
24. In 1988, when the American Internet was paralyzed by a computer virus, quick thinker Pål Spiller saved the Norwegian Internet by literally pulling the plug.
25. The first actual computer “bug” was a dead moth which was stuck in a Harvard Mark II computer in 1947.
26. A 15 year old hacked NASA computers and caused a 21-day shutdown of their computers. He hacked Pentagon weapons computer too…
27. In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first ‘SUPER’ computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5 MB of data
28. In 1978, Apple Corps (owned by The Beatles) sued Apple Computer for trademark infringement. The case settled for $80,000 along with the condition that Apple Computer should not enter the music business, and Apple Corps agreed not to enter the computer business.
29. Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is ‘Crash Course’!
30. By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.
31. Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.
32. E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
33. For every ‘normal’ webpage, there are five porn pages.
34. In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn’t considered 100% compatible unless it could runMicrosoft Flight Simulator*.
35. MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.
36. One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.
37. 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.
38. The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
39. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
40. Every minute, 10 hours of videos are uploaded on Youtube.
41. 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.
42. Google estimates that the Internet today contains about 5 million terabytes of data (1TB = 1,000GB), and claims it has only indexed a paltry 0.04% of it all! You could fit the whole Internet on just 200 million Blu-Ray disks.
43. There are about five porn pages for every ‘normal’ web-page.
44. 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women
45. Tim Berners-Lee coined the phrase “World Wide Web” in 1990.
46. U.S. President Bill Clinton’s inauguration in January 1997 was the first to be webcast.
47. Google uses an estimated 15 billion kWh of electricity per year, more than most countries. However, google generates a lot of their own power with their solar panels.
48. Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was a college drop out.