25 Secrets You Didn’t Know About Computer

I can certainly provide you with some interesting facts about computers that you may not be aware of. Here are 25 such facts:

1. The world's first computer was called the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC). It was built in 1945 and weighed over 27 tons.
2. The first computer mouse was invented in 1964 by Douglas Engelbart. It was made of wood and had only one button.
3. The first computer virus was created in 1971 by Bob Thomas. It was called "Creeper" and was designed to infect DEC PDP-10 mainframe computers.
4. The first hard drive was created in 1956 by IBM. It was the size of a refrigerator and had a capacity of only 5 MB.
5. The QWERTY keyboard layout was designed in the 1870s to prevent typewriter keys from jamming.
6. The first Apple computer, the Apple I, was sold for $666.66.
7. The first computer game, Spacewar!, was created in 1962 by Steve Russell.
8. The first webcam was created in 1991 at the University of Cambridge. It was used to monitor a coffee pot in the computer lab.
9. The first computer printer was invented in 1953 by Remington Rand. It was called the UNIVAC File Computer Printer.
10. The first email was sent in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson.
11. The first portable computer, the Osborne 1, was introduced in 1981. It weighed 24 pounds.
12. The first graphical user interface (GUI) was created by Xerox PARC in the 1970s.
13. The first website was launched in 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee.
14. The first computer-animated feature film was Toy Story, released in 1995.
15. The first computer-generated music album was Iamus, released in 2012. All the compositions on the album were created by an AI computer program.
16. The first computer virus to cause widespread damage was the Melissa virus, which was released in 1999.
17. The first computer to win a game of chess against a reigning world champion was Deep Blue, which defeated Garry Kasparov in 1997.
18. The first video game console, the Magnavox Odyssey, was released in 1972.
19. The first laptop computer, the Grid Compass, was released in 1982. It cost $8,000.
20. The first 1 GB hard drive was released by IBM in 1980. It was the size of a refrigerator and cost $40,000.
21. The first digital camera was created in 1975 by Steven Sasson. It weighed 8 pounds and recorded black-and-white images onto a cassette tape.
22. The first computer mouse with a scroll wheel was introduced by Microsoft in 1996.
23. The first computer virus to infect the internet was the Morris worm, which was released in 1988.
24. The first computer to use a mouse and a graphical user interface was the Xerox Alto, which was developed in the 1970s.
25. The first computer-generated image (CGI) in a feature film was in the 1973 film Westworld. It was used to create the robotic hands of the Gunslinger character.