Interesting Facts Regarding Computer

The world's first computer maker

Sir Harold Thomas Flower. He is the maker of the world's first electronic computer in 1941 called Colossus and password used by the Unit-breaking British Military Secrets to decode Nazi radio transmissions.

The name of the world's first commercial computer

ENIAC (Electronic numerator Intregrator Analyzer and Computer) is the world's first commercial computer. This computer weighs 60.000 pounds and the size of one large room. ENIAC was completed in 1945. ENIAC was originally created for military purposes. This computer can not store the data.

The richest man in the world because of computer software

William Henry Gates, or more commonly referred to as Bill Gates is the richest man in the world during the last 12 years (according to the magazine Forbel). Gates is the founder and chairman of Microsoft company engaged in software. He is also the founder of Corbis company engaged in the digital image archive.

There are insects (bugs) in computer

Insects, in English or a bug, it could have gone in the casing. But that meant insects or bugs to the computer is not a live insect. Bug is an error or failure in a computer program that does not run properly. For example, when we cool to play the game, suddenly the computer hangs or freezes. The bug usually occurs because of lack of caution programmer in writing programs, could also be due to a program requires 128 MB memory and a computer with 64 MB memory is forced to save the program with that much memory, so there is a failure because of lack of memory.

The first computer bug
The first bug was a moth. In 1945, Grace Murray Hopper and his team are working on the computer calculator Mark II Aiken Relay Harvard University. Then his computer problems. After looking for the cause, there were bees at Relay # 70 in panel F. Bees were then removed. Since then the term bug is used as the damage in the computer work. The term to get rid of bugs is called debugging.

First modem
Around the 1950s, the American air defense request made ​​tool to send data over the phone. The first commercial modem was made ​​AT & T and the Bell 103 in a tender launched in 1962 with a speed of 300 bits / sec. In 1996 the existing modem with a speed of 56,000 bits / sec.

Computer games

1947 is considered as the year when the game was first played on the CRT tube. Still a simple game, about aircraft that had to shoot a target. At that graphics can not be described electronically on the CRT screen. 1950, created the first graphical games with the Tic-Tac-Toe. Most of the early computer games made ​​by the University. 1960s created Spacewar game played by two people. This is the first game sold widely and instantly became the most popular game at that time.

The most expensive game

There gameboy made ​​of 18 carat gold and encrusted with diamonds around the screen. Game Boy was made ​​by Aspreys of London, the price is $ 25,000.00 USD, or approximately USD 225 million. This is a gameboy most expensive ever sold. PDP-1 sold with the game Space Wars and was made ​​in 1960, the price is $ 120,000.00 USD which is now equivalent to $ 760,000.00 or USD 6.84 billion. This is the most expensive game system ever sold. Shenmue game was made ​​for 7 years until 1999 and its development costs more than $ 20,000.000. Shenmue for the Dreamcast made ​​by Sega. Shenmue is the most realistic games on the market at that time and is the most expensive computer game ever sold.

The most expensive mouse pad
Mouse pad or mouse mat is used to a flat surface and a computer mouse works quite well. There is a mouse made ​​handmade in the UK for Formula 1 by a technician. Mouse pad is made ​​of solid carbon fiber. It costs about $ 489.00 or about USD 4.4 million. This mouse pad is the world's most expensive ever sold.

The first computer store
In July 1975, Dick Heiser opened the first computer store called "The Computer Store" in California. The Computer Store sells computer equipment, books and magazines related to computers.

The first virus that causes the highest losses

In 2004, SCO Group Inc.. in Colorado fell ill from the virus MyDoom worm DDOS. The disadvantage of up to $ 38.5 billion USD, or about Rp.346.5 trillion. SCO Group to award $ 250,000 or approximately USD 25.2 trillion to catch the virus MyDoom.B. Other viruses that have been known to cause large losses are: viruses SoBig that causes loss of $ 37.1 billion or Rp 333.9 trillion, viruses Love Bug menyebabkab loss of $ 15 billion or around Rp 135 trillion, and the virus Code Red which causes losses of up to $ 2 billion, or about Rp 18 trillion .

Computer character that most high cost of manufacture

Smeagol the Gollum, is one of the characters in the film The Lord of the Rings created by Weta Digital. With more than 200 faces and 300 muscle movement, this is the character most expensive computer ever made.

The first Web browser

NCSA Mosaic created by Marc Andreesen at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in April 1993 for special purposes. But the WorldWideWeb made ​​Tim Berners-Lee in December 2000 is considered as the first web browser due to extensive use. His name was later changed to Nexus. In October 1994, Netscape released the beta version of Mozilla and became the first commercial web browser.

First website
Timithy Sir John "Tim" Berners-Lee was the first person who created the world wide web in August 1991. His website is http://nxoc01.cern.ch.

The first commercial Website
In October 1994 HotWired start thinking to receive advertising on the Internet because the Internet is now used by the public. AT & T put up a banner 468 x 60 mounted on the site HotWired site. This is the first advantage of the Internet. Dale Dougherty in 1993 launched the Global Network Navigator, which AOL bought in 1995, is considered the first commercial web site.

Webcams first used
In 1991, Paul Jardetzky, Qunetin Stafford-Fraser and students of Cambridge University made ​​the program to display images on-line. In 1993, a new web widely available to all Internet users.

Search engines are the first
The first search engine designed for the Internet was made ​​in 1993 under the name World Wide Web Warderer (Wadex). WebCrawler, 1994, is the first search engine based on the text as the search engines that now.

Computers that can beat chess grandmasters

IBM supercomputer Deep Blue was the first computer to beat chess grandmaster, Gary Kasparov, in 1995 in Philadelhia, the United States. PhD students at Carnegie Mellon University, Feng-hsiung Hsu, Murray Campbell and Thomas Anatharaman created the Deep Blue in 1985 which is a computer chess game the fastest and the greatest ever made. This computer could choose the step movement of chess pieces from thousands of motion contained in its data warehouse. Deep Blue is also capable of up to 200 million memperkiraka movement within one second, really great when compared to Kasparov who is only able to estimate the three movements in the same time. One advantage to the Deep Blue is never forgotten or distorted by his opponent.

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