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Did You Know?

      20 Amazing things that you must know.!!


  • The first electronic computer ENIAC weighed more than 27 tons and took up 1800 square feet. 
  • TYPEWRITER is the longest word that you can write using the letters only on one row of the keyboard of your computer. 
  • Doug Engelhard invented the first computer mouse in around 1964 which was made of wood. 
  • HP, Microsoft and Apple have one very interesting thing in common – they were all started in a garage. 
  • The original name of windows was Interface Manager. 
  • The first microprocessor created by Intel was the 4004. It was designed for a calculator. 
  • An observation showed that a computer user blinks his eyes 7 times a minute than the average user who blinks his eyes 20 times a minute. 
  • The first ever domain name was registered as symbolic.com. 
  • The binary language of computer invented by Gottfried Leibniz in 1679. 
  • Christopher Latham Sholes was an American inventor who invented the QWERTY keyboard of Computer. 
  • The abbreviation of computer VIRUS is Vital Information Resources Under Siege. 
  • Robert Dennard is the inventor of RAM, although it was known as DRAM when he invented it. DRAM is an acronym for dynamic random access memory. 
  • The IBM released the first motherboard in 1981, which was known as “planar breadboard”. 
  • The first computer printer is generally considered to have been invented in 1953 by Remington Rand. Although Chester Carlson invented a dry printing process called electro-photography, commonly known as a Xerox. 
  • The first CRT cathode ray tube scanning device was invented by the German scientist Karl Ferdinand Braun in 1897. 
  • The Linux Operating system was developed by Linus Torvalds in 1991 at Helsinki, It’s a kernel based operating system.
  • The first "FAX" device was developed in early 1840s by the Scottish inventor Alexander Bain. 
  • Eric Emerson Schmidt was a first CEO of google. 
  • Do you know? WiFi stands for wireless fidelity, but we can also called it Wireless Internet Fast Internet.

  

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