Here’s a quirky little blog for your tech-savvy selves. Get ready to impress at the next office party with these twenty facts about computers that you probably don’t know!
Facts About Computers 1: The Heavyweight Champion
The first computer, known as ENIAC, was no lightweight. In fact, it weighed a whopping 27 tons!
Fact 2: Cashless World
Did you know, about 90% of the global currency exists only in computers? Yes, cash is only 10%.
Facts About Computers 3: The Wooden Mouse
The first computer mouse was carved out of wood. Doug Engelbart deserves the credit for this 1964 invention.
Fact 4: Cyber Mafia
Around 70% of virus engineers work for organised crime syndicates. Clearly, this emphasises the critical importance of robust cybersecurity measures for your systems.
Facts About Computers – Fact 5: Women in Tech
Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician and writer, holds the badge of the first known computer programmer.
Fact 6: Garage Starters
Some of the most prominent computer brands we know today, such as Apple, Microsoft, and HP, had humble beginnings in garages.
Facts About Computers 7: Staring Contest
Gazing at the screen, we blink about seven times a minute, significantly less than the average blink rate of 20 times a minute.
Fact 8: Virus Factories
Hackers write up to 6,000 new computer viruses every month, further demonstrating the pressing need to secure your systems.
Facts About Computers – 9: Spam Land
A startling 80% of daily emails in the US are spam, underscoring the importance of secure email practices.
Fact 10: Costliest Virus
The Mydoom virus, which surfaced in January 2006, cost an astonishing $38.5 billion in damage, making it the most expensive computer virus to date.
Fact 11: Birth of Modern Computers
In 1833, Charles Babbage invented components vital to modern computers. However, it wasn’t until around 120 years later that computers as we know them were born.
Fact 12: Heavy Storage
The first gigabyte drive cost $40,000, weighed 550 lbs, and was introduced in 1980.
Fact 13: Autographed Mac
The first Macintosh computer case carries 47 signatures of the entire 1982 division.
Facts About Computers – Fact 14: USB Breach
In 2008, a USB stick led to the worst US security breach, resulting in thousands of classified and unclassified document thefts by foreign intelligence.
Fact 15: Wikipedia Vandal Patrol
A single vigilant computer catches 50% of all Wikipedia vandalism.
Fact 16: Parcels and Computers
Computers sort 95% of mail. The remaining is sorted by USPS employees owing to sloppy addresses that even computer systems can’t decipher.
Fact 17: Smile Detectives
Computers at MIT can differentiate between genuine and frustrated smiles.
Fact 18: Dog Mind Reading
Can computers read your dog’s thoughts? Perhaps soon! A Scandinavian company is making strides in that direction.
Fact 19: Water Computing
Russia built a water-engineered computer in 1936 to solve partial differential equations.
Facts About Computers – Fact 20: Pixar’s Tale
John Lasseter pushed for computer animation at Disney but was fired for doing so. Today, he’s the CCO of Pixar.
