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.
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1. The first electronic computer ENIAC weighed more than 27 tons and took up 1800 square feet.
2. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that you can write using the letters only on one row of the keyboard of your computer.
3. The password for the computer controls of nuclear-tipped missiles of the U.S was 00000000 for eight years.
4. 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.
5. Approximately 70% of virus writers are said to work under contract for organized crime syndicates.
6. There are more than 5000 new computer viruses are released every month.
7. Around 50% of all Wikipedia vandalism is caught by a single computer program with more than 90% accuracy.
8. An average person normally blinks 20 times a minute, but when using a computer he/she blinks only 7 times a minute.
9. More than 80% of the emails sent daily are spams.
10. In 2010, a high school named Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania issued a MacBook to each of its 2,306 students, then remotely activated the webcams to spy on the students at home.
11. Most of people know that “who is bill gates”. Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was a college drop out. Bill Gates house was designed Using a Macintosh computer.
12. The house where Bill Gates lives, was designed using a Macintosh computer.
13. The first ever hard disk drive was made in 1979, and could hold only 5MB of data.
14. The first 1GB hard disk drive was announced in 1980 which weighed about 550 pounds, and had a price tag of $40,000.
15. More than 80% of the emails sent daily are spams.
