COMPUTER WORLD
JULY 14, 2022
32 Important Facts Of Computer
Here are the 32 important facts of computer that you might not aware of. The machine is already an integral part of our life today.
- Charles Babbage in 1833 invented all the parts that are now used for modern computers. But the first ‘modern’ computers were invented only 120 years later.
- Alan Turing is the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. In addition, the “Turing Machine” which is a mathematical computational model was invented by him.
- Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) is known as the world’s first electronics digital computer
- The first mouse for computers, made in 1964, was made of wood by Doug Engelbart.
- Osborne 1 is called the first laptop in the world.
- 5 out of every 6 pages on the internet are porn related
- The word ‘Computer’ is used for the one who does the calculations arithmetic.
- With more than 800 million users, Facebook can become the 3rd largest country in the world
- More than 1 million domains registered every month
- The 12 engineers who made the IBM PC are referred to as “The Dirty Dozen”.
- The Commodore C64 is the world’s best-selling computer, selling 2 million units.
- Tetris is the world’s best-selling computer game, sold over 100 million copies.
- MyDoom is the fastest spreading virus ever created. The total damage done by MyDoom was $38 billion.
- Nimrod is known as the world’s first computer game.
- Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon are all supported by Linux. It is not one of the most popular OS for general consumers. But, Linux is leading the Industry.
- The first website online was “info.cern.ch”, which was created by Tim Berners-Lee at the CERN research laboratory in 1990.
- A normal human blinks about 20 times a minute. However, when compared to computer users, they only blink 7 times per minute on average.
- The Intel 4004 is the first commercially available microprocessor with a maximum clock speed of 740 kHz.
- The trackball (later used for the mouse) was invented in 1946 by Ralph Benjamin for a fire control radar planning system.
- The Scroll Lock key is the least used key on the keyboard. Many believe that it is completely useless.
- The first 1 GB hard drive was announced by IBM in 1980 which had a price tag of $40,000!
- The first e-mail reads ‘QWERTYUIOP’.
- You won’t get a virus just by opening an email. It is only activated when you click on a link or access an attachment.
- At the end of 2012 there were more than 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.
- The heaviest desktop computer ever built was the IBM 5120. It weighed about 47 kg and that did not include the 58 kg external floppy drive.
- CAPTCHA is an acronym of “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”.
- About 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women.
- More than 6,000 new computer viruses are released every month.
- Microsoft’s project to develop a new operating system was codenamed “Interface Manager”. However, they found another term which was more interesting, so they decided to name it “Windows”
- Amazon.com didn’t start as a full-fledged e-commerce business but simply as an online bookstore.
- Sweden is the topmost country with the highest percentage (75%) of internet users.
- One in every 8 couples who married in the United States met their partner online.
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