26.The first word spoken on the internet was “lo” though it was supposed to be “login” but the computer crashed after the first two letters.
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27.The password for the computer controls of nuclear missiles of the US was 00000000 for 8 years.
28.Around 1 million new domains are in the way to be registered in next month and this happens every month.
29.A 15 year old boy had hacked NASA’s computers because of which a 21 day shutdown was caused.
30.Russians were the first who made a computer that ran on water. This was in 1936.
31.The first actual computer “bug” was identified in 1947 as a dead moth. It was stuck in a Harvard Mark II computer.
32.Emails existed even before World Wide Web.
33.Alaska is the only state in the world whose all letters come in a straight row of keyboard letters.
34.You can operate a computer without an Operating System!
35.In Windows 98, minimized windows are actually moved far away outside the average monitor’s resolution.
36.Tim Berners-Lee coined the phrase “World Wide Web” in 1990.
37.10 hours of videos are uploaded on YouTube every 60 sec.
38.Three former employees of PayPal founded YouTube.
39.‘www.symbolics.com’ was the first domain name ever.
40.There are over 1 billion instant messaging ids/accounts world over.
41.PC jr home computer was assumed to destroy all its competitors in the market , given the powerful status that was acquired by IBM in 1983. However, it turned out to be the biggest flops in the history of computing.
42.A video game called “Lose/Lose” deletes a random file on the computer everytime the person kills an enemy.
43.A typists fingers have travelled about 20 km or 12.6 miles on an average working day.
44.The first computer (which was in essence – a mechanical computer) had no RAM.
45.Windows 95 was the second most installed piece of software on computers in 1995, video game DOOM was first.
46.Xerox PARC was the first computer to demonstrate the GUI.
47.Williams tube was the first form of Random-access storage device.
48.The first website that went online was “info.cern.ch“, which was created by Tim Berners-Lee at the research lab CERN 1990.
49.Apple’s first computer, the Apple I, went on sale in 1976 for $666.66 because Steve Wozniak liked repeating digits and found them easier to type.
50.The First Electronic Computer ENIAC weighed more than 27 tons and took up 1800 square feet.
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