20 computer facts for learning all about computers
Hey there! Factblow presents computer facts for you. Nowadays computer is necessary for all either for student or organization but what is a computer and computer history? It is better to explain by a techy person but what about non-techy like me and you, Factblow is telling interesting facts about computers, and your sounds like it is amazing. Just keep in mind, that the computer is an electronic device that was created for calculating purposes but now it is used for Multitasking like graphics, editing, media, and many more things.
Quick Computer facts
- Do you know the longest word you can type from a keyboard to one row? No, this is TYPEWRITER in the first row. Try it now.
- The billionaire’s company and the most famous companies Apple, Microsoft, and H.P. were started from a garage.
- Intel 4004 a 4 bits central process unit was the first microprocessor that was created on November 15, 1971, designed for calculating purposes.
- In 1964, Douglas Engelbart invented the first mouse which was created from Wood.
- You get shocked to know that there is 5,000 or more virus created every month.
- Interface Manager is the original name of Windows.
- Ada Lovelace was the first woman computer programmer who lived in England. She had mastery in the Analytical engine.
- The longest word is typed by the left hand which is STEWARDESSES.
- Bob Thomas was the writer of the first computer virus in 1971, CREEPER.
- In US Mary Kenneth Keller was the first woman who held a Ph.D. in Computer science.
- Do you know the founder and CEO of Microsoft (Just kidding) Obiasly Bill Gates who designed his house from a Macintosh computer?
- “The Dirty Dozen” PC was created by 12 engineers from IBM company.
- Le refersLegend and novel refers to new. It makes LENOVO a computer brand that comes from New Legend.
- Intel gave the first micro processer named 4004.
1. The first computer facts are ENIAC(Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer).
ENIAC was the first general-purpose electronic digital computer. It is used in a 50×30 foot basement area of Morey school It has 40 panels arranged in U- shape It could perform up to 50,000 additions per second.
2. Why @sign is used for an E-mail address?
@sign is taken from a Latin word that means (in) and refers to address and one more cause is @sign is rarely used by any other document and anywhere.
Bonus:- @symbol was first used by Ray Tomlinson who discovered email facility and technology for us, and now we are using it today.
3. Computer facts A person usually blinks their eyes 20 times per minute but when uses a computer, blinks 7 times per minute only.
According to a study normally an average person blinks 20 times in a minute but a computer user reduces it to 7 times per minute to focus on searching and paying attention to what they looking for.
4. why do we solve a CAPTCHA on some high-authority websites?
CAPTCHA means completely automated Public Turing Test to tell computer-human apart. it is solved by humans by telling the computer that the is a human can’t solve by bots because some hacker bots try to attack the site but the captcha catches the bots and prevents them from accessing the site.
5. The owner of Garage became the CEO of YOUTUBE.
We all know that GOOGLE INC. the company started in the garage. Do you know the owner of the garage becomes the CEO of YouTube? She is Susan Diane Wojcicki and also the first marketing manager of Google in 1999.
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6. Do you know According to VERISIGN total 359.8 million of domains registered recorded the last year 2019?
Yes, the huge amount of websites are created day by day for business purposes or blogging purposes similarly, According to Verisign data, 10 million .com and .net TLDs (top-level domains) registered at the end of the first quarter of 2020.
7. Google uses millions of gallons of water to cool its servers.
Google Inc. has 21 main centers located currently in the world. It uses millions of gallons of water to cool servers to serve better data quality. For future google plans to use 1.46 billion gallons of water for the new data center in 2021.
8. The United States Army set the password of the nuclear missile controlling computer was 0000000000 for eight years.
Yes, it is true facts lovers 0000000000 was the password of a nuclear missile-controlling supercomputer for eight years but the interesting thing is that nobody could hack it.
9. The cost of $38.5 billion. The virus is the most expansive virus in history.
MyDoom is the fastest and shortly spread virus in history it came at the end of January 2006. It damaged approx $38.5 billion.
10. The hard drive costs up to $8100 and the storage capacity is just 1GB.
IBM (International Business Machines) introduces the first hard drive model no. IBM3380 in 1980, was bigger than a refrigerator and weight up to 250 kg (550 pounds) It could 1 GB storage capacity and the price was more than $81000.It was pocket friendly only for the bill gate.
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11. Charles Babbage failed to invent automatics computing but designed it.
What? what is factblow saying? yes, Charles Babbage is the father of computers by pioneers. He also presents the concept of automatic computer and designed it but failed to build it was completed in London in 2002. It had 8000 parts 11feets long and weight about 5 tons. It was originally design created by Babbage.
12. Space war was the first computer game design and developed by Stephen Russel in 1962.
Game lovers also present at that time A person named Stephen Russel who discovered a gaming concept on the computer and design a computer for gaming purposes the computer size was larger than a car it was good for gamers but not for the pocket.
13. For reducing computer typing speed the QWERTY keyboard concept discovered.
Christopher Latham Sholes invented the QWERTY keyboard in the early 1970s. This keyboard invented for consuming typer time to type because fast typing slows down the computer systems.
14. 70% to 80% of spam mail comes daily in your e-mails
Yes, factoid we have got lots of emails daily like junks ads from a website but another email comes that most of is spam for collecting data for receivers for theft information or details of the user that it. So be careful to click on any kind of unknown links or Ads.
15. Disney fired Johan Lasseter for his creativity in computer Animation.
firstly, fired by Disney, he got a new and better job in Pixar and his creativities and idea create his post as CEO of the Pixar Animations film company.
16. Tim Burner Lee invented the first web page in 1990.
In 1990, Tim burner’s Lee invented HTML(HyperText Markup Language) It defines the structure of the web page. He had also created the first website name http://info.cern.ch/
17. Mirror Version of google that is (elgoog.im)
elgoog.im (check out this link now) “ALL TOO FLATE” created a mirror website in 2002, for more earning and popularity. It is also known as Google Mirror. It’s my favorite facts about computers. isn’t it?
18. Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg pay rewarded as a dollar for finding bugs.
Mark Zuckerberg spend millions of dollars for fixing bugs from Facebook ran a campaign for those hackers or developers who wants to earn money to find the bugs without any Restrictions.
19. USB (universal serial Bus) invented in India.
Ajay Bhatt was the scientist of Indian American Computer Architect who discovers USB in 1994. It is a port in all gadgets to connect hassle-free and to easy to use for all. For more Knowledge about India.
20. A scientist works on a supercomputer that will detect fake smiles or real smiles and able to read Dog’s mind.
The computer’s future will brighter than now because most scientists are working on a highly advanced computer called Supercomputer. It will be a future computer that will easily read the thinking of Dogs and able to detect human smile nature, they are smiling or not.
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Conclusion
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