What do you think about PC ?

Konrad Zuse is the inventor of the first programmable computer in the world. He did it in 1936 and named the computer as Z1. Konrad Zuse

The first electronic computer ENIAC weighed more than 27 tons and took up 1800 square feet.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that you can write using the letters only on one row of the keyboard of your computer.

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

A computer worm was present before that could access your Windows XP OS, could download a patch from Microsoft to exist the vulnerability as used it to infect the system and after delete itself.

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

HP, Microsoft and Apple have one very interesting thing in common – they were all started in a garage.

The fact that keyboard have ‘Q’ ‘W’ ‘E’ ‘R’ ‘T’ ‘Y’ types of button: When keyboard was invented, it had buttons in alphabetical order, as a result, the typing speed was too fast and the computer used to hang. So, to reduce the speed of a person, qwerty keyboard were invented.

In 2005, Sony illegally installed rootkits on 22 million computers to prevent the users from ripping copyrighted music, and could not be uninstalled. It also reported user’s listening habits back to Sony. Ironically, the code itself contained open source software, and so infringed copyright.

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 facts about computer that I thought you would be interested in. That’s why I’ve listed 20 of them that you can check out.

The first electronic computer ENIAC weighed more than 27 tons and took up 1800 square feet.

Only about 10% of the world’s currency is physical money, the rest only exists on computers.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that you can write using the letters only on one row of the keyboard of your computer.

Doug Engelbart invented the first computer mouse in around 1964 which was made of wood.

Around 50% of all Wikipedia vandalism is caught by a single computer program with more than 90% accuracy.

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.

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

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

HP, Microsoft and Apple have one very interesting thing in common – they were all started in a garage.

An average person normally blinks 20 times a minute, but when using a computer he/she blinks only 7 times a minute.

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

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

The first 1GB hard disk drive was announced in 1980 which weighed about 550 pounds, and had a price tag of $40,000.

More than 80% of the emails sent daily are spams.

A group of 12 engineers designed IBM PC and they were called as “The Dirty Dozen”.