Wednesday 1 February 2017

Interesting Facts About Computers

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1. The first electronic computer ENIAC weighed more than 27 tons and took up 1800 square feet.
2.  Only about 10% of the world’s currency is physical money, the rest only exists on computers.
3. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that you can write using the letters only on one row of the keyboard of your computer.
4. Doug Engelbart invented the first computer mouse in around 1964 which was made of wood.
5. There are more than 5000 new computer viruses are released every month.
6. Alan Turing is the man who initiated programming. But the sad end is he din't get the credit he deserved for.
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7. Around 50% of all Wikipedia vandalism is caught by a single computer program with more than 90% accuracy.
8. If there was a computer as powerful as the human brain, it would be able to do 38 thousand trillion operations per second and hold more than 3580 terabytes of memory.
9. The password for the computer controls of nuclear tipped missiles of the U.S was 00000000 for eight years.
10. Approximately 70% of virus writers are said to work under contract for organized crime syndicates.
11. HP, Microsoft and Apple have one very interesting thing in common – they were all started in a garage.
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12. CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart". CAPTCHA is used to distinguish computer from human. No computer has got success in solving captcha till this date.

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