Amazing Facts about Computer in English
Computer is such a thing without which today’s world cannot be imagined. Computers are being used almost everywhere in schools, banks and science. Today there are around 3 billion computers in the world. Let us give you some shocking, mind-blowing information about computers…
Computer Full Form in English – Full form of computer
- C = Common
- O = Oriented
- M = Machine
- P=Particularly
- U=United and used under
- T=Technical and
- E=Educational
- R = Research
History of Computer – History of Computer in English
The history of computer is about 2 thousand years old and the credit for its creation cannot be given to any one person. The word ‘computer’ was first used in 1613 for a human being who was capable of performing mathematical calculations. Initially the computer was in the form of a wooden rack which is also called an abacus. If we talk about the first mechanical computer, it was created by Charles Babbage in 1822, that is why he was also awarded the title of “Father of Computer”. goes. If we talk about the first programmable computer, it was created by Konrad Zuse of Germany between 1936 and 1938, whose name was ‘Z1’. Now if we first talk about electronic digital computer, then it was created by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert between 1943 and 1946, whose name was ‘ENIAC’. It was so big that 200 yards of space was required to keep it.
27 interesting facts about computers in English
1. About 6,000 new computer viruses are created every month.
2. The first computer mouse was made of wood and was made by ‘Doug Engelbart’ in 1964.
3. Usually a person blinks 20 times in a minute but when sitting in front of a computer, he blinks only 7 times.
4. The original case of Apple’s ‘Macintosh Computer’ has signatures of 47 people.
5. By 2034, 47% of the world’s jobs will be done by computers themselves.
6. The fingers of a typing person move about 20 kilometers every day.
7. The longest word that can be written from a single line of the keyboard is ‘Typewriter’.
8. The sound that comes when Windows starts is made using Apple Mac.
9. If there was a computer as powerful as the human brain, it would be capable of performing approximately 4 crore operations per second and would be able to save more than 35 lakh GB of memory.
10. You will be surprised to know that from 1968 to 1976 i.e. for 8 years, the password of the computer control that launched America’s nuclear missiles was 00000000.
Amazing Facts about Computer in English
11. The map of Bill Gates’ house was designed from Apple’s ‘Macintosh’ computer.
12. The world’s first hard disk, which was made in 1979, could store only 5 MB of data. Nowadays, a photo worth more than 1 MB can be taken.
13. The first 1 GB hard disk weighed as much as a crocodile and cost $40,000. It was built in 1980.
14. The first company to make 1 TB i.e. 1000 GB hard disk was ‘Hitachi’. Who created it in 2007.
15. The first microprocessor was made by Intel company in 1971. This processor named Intel 4004 was designed for a calculator whose maximum clock rate was only 740KHz. Whereas today processors up to 8.805 GHz clock rate have come in the market.
16. Sanskrit has been considered the best language for computer software.
17. HP, Microsoft and Apple have one thing in common that all three started from garages.
18. The word Computer originates from the English word ‘Compute’ which means ‘to calculate’.
19. You will be surprised to know that the first computer bug was a dead insect.
20. The world’s first computer program was written by a woman named ‘Ads Lovelace’.
Amazing Facts about Computer
21. The card game (Solitaire) was first introduced in a computer in 1990.
22. Till date, not a single computer has been made which can solve Captcha automatically.
23. Around 1950, computers were called “Electronic Brains”.
24. 9 out of every 10 supercomputers run on Linux instead of Windows. Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, all of them are running on Linux.
25. Every year 30 December is celebrated as ‘Computer Security Day’.
26. Every year 2 December is celebrated as Computer Literacy Day.
27. 86 percent people try to connect USB upside down.
First Computer Virus – First Computer Virus in English
The world’s first computer virus named ‘Elk Cloner’ was created jokingly in 1982 by Rich Skrenta, a 15-year-old American boy. It was a type of ‘boot sector virus’ that could only affect Apple II computers. You must have also read this in many places that the first computer virus was created by two Pakistani brothers. Actually, the virus named ‘Brain’ which was created by two Pakistani brothers Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi in January 1986, was the first virus created for Windows. Wasn’t it the world’s first computer virus?
When did computers come to India?
Computer came to India in 1952..which was called ‘Dr. Established by ‘Dwijish Dutta’ at the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata. But this was imported from outside. Siddhartha was the first computer which was built in India and ‘Param 8000’ was the first supercomputer which was built in India. This supercomputer was created by ‘Vijay Bhatkar’ in 1991 when America refused to give supercomputer to India.