40 Amazing Facts You may not know About Computers | Amazing Facts 4U
- The QWERTY keyboard layout is 130 years old.
- ENIAC, the first electronic computer, appeared 50 years ago. It’s amazing that the original ENIAC was about 80 feet long, weighed 30 tons, had 17,000 tubes. By comparison, a desktop computer today can store a million times more information than an ENIAC, and 50,000 times faster.
- The first Computer Mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
- In 1971, the first speech recognition software named, “Hearsay” was developed in India.
- Steve jobs and stephen Wozniak previously worked at HP before Apple was founded.
- The fastest supercomputer in 1976 ran at 80MHz and cost $80 million. Fact is the cheapest phones today run at 250Mhz!
- The 1st personal computer, the Apple II, went on sale in 1977.
- The first Apple computer which was built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, was amazingly made by using parts they got for free from their employers.
- ˜Macintosh’ is in fact a variety of apple. It also was the first commercially successful personal computer.It was the first one to have a graphical user interfaces (GUI) and mouse instead of command line interfaces.
- The code name for the 12 engineers who designed the IBM pc was :- ‘The dirty dozen’.
- Amazing Fact : Type the following in MS word: =rand (200, 99) and see what happens! This is absolutely unbelievable.
- Nobody can create a folder anywhere on the computer which can be named as “CON”. It is a reserved word from old times..
- The memory of first Ram was amazingly just 46 KB.
- Seagate introduced the first hard disk for pcs in 1979. It amazingly held just 5 M.B of data.
- In 1980, the first One GB disk drive was released , price being $40,000 with the weight of 550 pounds.
- Time magazines Man of the year for 1982 was the computer.
- The term Y2K was invented by David Eddie in June 1995 through the email.
- The average computer user blinks 7 times per minute less than the normal rate of 20.
- People generally read 25% slower from a computer screen compared to paper.
- HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple have one thing in common ,apart from being IT companies. Amazingly they were all started in garages.
- On an average work day, a typist’s fingers on keyboard travel 12.6 miles.
- The Dvorak keyboard is more efficient than QWERTY in fact said to be 20 times faster.
- 80% of information stored on all computers in the world is in English.
- Hard drives in the near future are expected to have a track density of about 100,000 tracks/inch. This means that tracks are spaced amazing 10 millionths of an inch apart.
- The nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra video card contains amazing 222 million transistors.
- Amazing fact is that 128 bit SSL encryption is so strong that it would take much , much longer than the age of universe to crack a message encrypted using it. Even 20 years from now, if computers are a million times faster. it would still take longer than the age of the universe to crack it.
- Disk drive recording head fly height (gap between the head and disc when the drive is spinning ) is amazingly less than 1 microinch while a red blood cell is 300 microinches is diameter and a human hair is 4000 microinches. This is equivalent to airplane flying 10 feet above the ground.
- MP3 stands for MPEG-Layer III; it’s a film compression method that shrinks the size of data sent over the Internet.
- Microsoft founder Mr Bill Gate is using Linux Operating system in his own Personal Laptop.
- The name of its search engine “˜Bing’ has its origins in Bingo. Just like the game, it was meant to suggest that something looked for has been found or realized.
- You can use your headphones as a microphone! Just plug them in you mic input, and say something in them.
- If you search the word ‘recursion’ on Google, it will amazingly ask if you meant ‘recursion.’
- Fact was it used to be cheaper for an Australian to fly to the US and buy Adobe software than buy it in Australia!
- The default Windows XP desktop , a beautiful green field underneath a crystal blue sky is a real picture with no digital enchantments. It is an actual photo taken in Sonoma County, California.
- Amazingly there’s a printer that prints glass from sand! Markus Kaiser has developed a solar-powered, 3-D printer that works by taking the natural sunlight and superheating the sand, which is the material, to morph it into a three dimensional object that is programmed!
- Black HP printer ink costs roughly 1,400 times as much as crude oil, gallon for gallon.
- On a Qwerty keypad, Alaska is the only state that can be typed using one row of keys.
- The word “Font” refers to things like “bold” or “italics”.The actual style of the letters is called a “typeface”.
- Amazing fact is that whenever a You Tube video is buffeing or has paused , you may play a game of “snakes” by hitting the up arrow.
- The apple app store once sold “I am Rich” application which sold for $ 999.99 and did nothing.
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