IT Trivia and Facts
Friday, April 3, 2009
The world's first personal computer is Kenbak-1 designed by John V. Blakenbaker, it includes 256 bytes of memory (Wow! 256 bytes ahahah)
The inventor of the typewriter is none other than QWERT YUIOP in which he left his signature at the first row letters of the keyboard! (Oo nga noh! Amazing!!)
The world's first portable computer is Osborne I, weighing 24 pounds
Computers only understand two digits, 0 and 1, this is known as Binary digits.
ARPANET (Advance Research Project Agency Network) was known as the forefather of modern Internet!
CIH is also know as Chernobyl Virus (Oh! Spooky! Won't go there ahaha)
Douglas Englebart invented the mouse (not the one hunted by the cat ahaha)
The first computer with GUI and mouse is Apple Lisa (not the red one which keeps the doctor away ahaha)
Sony invented the first 3 1/2 inch floppy disk
Microsoft Windows 98 contains approximately 18 million lines of code (aw! headache!)
The first message of ARPANET is "lo" (ahaha ang haba ah!)
What is Error 404? The answer is "Site not found" - in http (aw! i hate it when i encounter that!)
Toy Story was the first full length computer generated animated movie (i thought it was Voltes V ahaha)
There are estimated 800 Million web pages on the web and it doubles in size every 8 months
The fastest computer in the world is CM-5 "thinking machine", it can perform 131 billion operations per second (that's what you call "the flash" ahaha)
Women are roughly 20% of IT professionals (How about men? ahaha)
Who is Linus Torvalds? He is the inventor of Linux!
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