Amazing Facts About the Computer

 Computers have become a very important part of our daily life. This awesome machine changed our lives in so many ways. Here's a list of the top amazing computer facts you might not know

1. The First Computer mouse was made of wood. Dough Engelbart invented it in 1964.

2. The first Electronic Computer ENIAC weighed more than 27 tons and took up 1800 square feet.

3. TYPEWRITTER is the longest word that you can write using the the letters only on one row of the key board of your computer.

4. Some of the biggest computer brands started in Garages. This is true for Apple, Microsoft and HP.

5. There are more than 5000 new computer viruses are released every month.

6. Only about 10% of the world's currency is physical money, the rest only exist in computers.

7. The first known computer programmer was a women. Her name was Ada Lovelace, and she lived in England. She is famous for working on the "Analytical Engine".

8. The original name of Windows was Interface Manager.

9. More than 80% emails sent daily are spam.

10. The house where Bill Gates lives, was designed using a Macintosh Computer.

11. The first ever hard disk drive was made in 1979, and could hold only 5MB of data.

12. An average person normally blinks 20 times a minute, people on computers only blink about seven times a minute.

13. Approximately 70% of virus writers are said to work under contract for organized crime syndicates. 

14. The password of the computer controls of nuclear tipped missiles of the U.S was 00000000 for eight years.

15. MyDoom is the most expensive computer virus in history. The virus cost an estimated $38.5 billion in damage and came about in January of 2006.

16. A single computer catches 50% of all Wikipedia Vandalism. This computer has a 90% accuracy rate.

17. If there was a computer as a powerful as the human brain, it would be able to do 38 thousands trillion operations per second and hold more than 3580 terabytes of memory.

18. The first microprocessor created by Intel was the 4004.  

19. The first Gigabyte Drive cost $40,000. It was released in 1980 and weighed 550lbs.

20. Computers might soon be able to tell what dogs think. These computers are under development by a Scandinavian company. A prototype is purported to be available.

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