35 Most Interesting Facts About Computers Which You Should Know
Computer is a device which has become extremely important for us in our day to day to life. It plays an important role in your business life. In almost all the sectors computer is extensively used. It is impossible to pinpoint a particular sector where a computer is not used. This post will help us to know about certain intriguing facts pertaining to computers.
35 Most Interesting Facts About Computers
1. In the year 1883, Charles Babbage invented all the parts of computers, and those parts are still used in modern-day computers.
2. Lot of people will be perhaps astonished to know, that initially Windows was known as Interface Manager.
3. ENIAC weighed more than 27 tons and took up 1800 square feet. ENIAC was the first electronic computer.
4. The first computer mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart. The development of the first computer mouse started in the 1960s.
5. The first commercial microprocessor by Intel was known as Intel 4004.
6. You will be surprised to know, that the first hard disk was made in 1979, it could hold only 5MB of data.
7. The longest word that can be written only on one row of the keyboard of the computer is TYPEWRITER.
8. Lot of people are perhaps not aware of the fact while using a computer we blink only 7 times a minute, but under normal circumstances, an average person while not using a computer blinks 20 times per minute.
9. The first 1GB hard disk drive weighed about 550 pounds and it had a price tag of $40,000. It was announced in 1980.
10. Another name for Microsoft Windows tutorials is 'Crash Course'.
11. Another interesting fact is that only around 10% of the world's currency is physical money, the rest of the amount exists only on computers.
12. You will be shocked to know that more than 5000 new computer viruses are released every month.
13. Another interesting fact related to hacking is that more than 20,000 websites are hacked every day from the US, according to Web Arx.
14. You may not know perhaps, but the fact of the matter is more than 80% of the sent emails are spam on a daily basis.
15. It's shocking that around 20% of total online viruses are released by organized crime units.
16. You will be amazed to know that a CPU with a clock speed of 2GHz is capable of carrying out two thousand million cycles per second.
17. Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, is called as CAPTCHA in short.
18. Russians were the first who made a computer that can be used in water in the year, 1936.
19. Do you know the country where the highest number of internet users are found? Well, it is none other than Sweden with 75 % internet users.
20. Do you know the first domain name ever was 'www.symbolics.com'.
21. In the year 2012, a group of hackers known as UGNazi took down the Papa John's website, the reason being the company took 2 hours more than the expected delivery time to deliver the food.
22. For eight years, the password for the computer controls of nuclear-tipped missiles of the U.S. was 00000000
23. You are perhaps not aware that in Windows 98, minimized windows are actually moved far away outside the average monitor's resolution. Isn't it intriguing?
24. Another interesting fact coming your way, it took Pixar 29 hours to render a single frame from Monster's University. Another interesting fact worth mentioning out here is that, if it was done on a single monitor, it would have taken 10,000 years to finish.
25. You will be perhaps shell shocked to know, that a 15-year-old hacked NASA computers, and the same resulted in 21 - day shutdown of their computers.
26. U.S. Library of Congress started the "Virtual Library " Project on the 1st of September, 1994.
27. IBM announced improved Chess - Playing Supercomputer as on September, 2 1997.
28. You may not be knowing that in 1947, the 9th of September, the first instance of an actual computer bug was found.
29. It is interesting to know that the first public remote computation was demonstrated on the 11th of September, 1940.
30. Successful test of the first integrated circuit was done on September 12, 1958.
31. Lot of us are perhaps not aware of the fact that on the 15th of September, 1947, The association for computing machinery was founded.
32. Microsoft unveiled improved WebTv on 16th September, 1997.
33. Microsoft Channel Architecture was announced by IBM on 25th September, 1987.
34. HotJava was demonstrated at Sun Microsystem as of 29th September, 1994.
35. RSA Algorithm patent was awarded on 20th September, 1983.
Conclusion
This post has incorporated certain key facts which are highly interesting as well as informative for people, who want to know more about computers. The world of computers has experienced a lot of surprising and shocking facts over the years. We have included as many intriguing facts as possible, to enlighten our readers more about computers. We hope you will like this post.
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