By: Peter
The Z1 was the first fully operational digital computer developed by Konrad Zuse in 1936. Zuse can be considered the inventor of the “modern computer”.
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IBM released the world’s first computer hard drive in 1956. It weighed more than a ton (that’s bigger than a refrigerator!)
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Only about 10% of the world’s currency is physical money, the rest only exists on computers; Bitcoin, Ethereum, ripple, etc.
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More than 5000 new computer viruses are released every month. Creeper virus was the first computer virus ever developed, created it in 1971 by Bob Thomas.
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“TYPEWRITER” is the longest word that you can type using the letters only on one row of the keyboard of your computer.
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In the U.S., the password used for the computer controls of nuclear-tipped missiles was “00000000” for 20 years
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There is a website called “The Useless Web”. This is the last treatment for your boredom. If you ever feel bored please visit.
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The first Apple computer was made by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak using old parts they collected for free from their staff!
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Around 50% of all Wikipedia vandalism is caught by a single computer program with more than 90% accuracy.
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If there was a computer as powerful as the human brain, it would hold more than 3580 terabytes of memory and be able to do 38 thousand trillion operations per second.
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