FACTS ABOUT COMPUTER

            

                   Approximately 90% of the world's currency is only available on computers.

                      In normal circumstances, the average human blinks roughly 20 times per minute; however, persons who use computers only blink about seven times each minute.

           Bob Thomas of BBN produced the Creeper programme in 1971, which is widely recognised as the first virus. Creeper was created as a security test to explore if it was possible to create a self-replicating programme.

           The mouse was originally called after a different creature: the turtle. Of course, the "tail" of wire at the end gave it its current moniker, but at least one corporation is profiting from the mouse's resemblance to the shelled critter.

           Back in 1956, the first hard disc drive (the IBM RAMAC 305) could hold 5MB of data, which was a great amount at the time. This is also the size of the first "tiny" 5.25-inch hard disc drive, which was introduced in 1980.

 

           Wood was used to create the first computer mouse.

          ENIAC, which stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, was the world's first computer. It was in a 50-foot basement and weighed between 30 and 40 tonnes.

          Larry Tesler left an amazing legacy for the world with ideas and innovations that helped shape computers and programming over the course of seven decades. He and his colleague, Tim Mott, are most recognised for inventing copy-paste.