Top 10 amazing facts of the world

Top 10 amazing facts of the world



The first computer mouse was invented in 1964 by Douglas Engelbart and made of wood.

The first web page was created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991, and it contained information about the World Wide Web project.

The first mobile phone call was made on April 1973, by  Motorola engineer Martin Cooper it infected Apple II computers.

The first electronic computer was called the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), and it was built in 1945. It weighed over 27 tons and had 17,468 vacuum tubes.

The first email was sent in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson and was sent to himself. The "@" symbol was used to separate the user's name from the name of the computer.

The first search engine was created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University in Montreal. It was called "Archie" and searched for FTP server files.

The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com, on March 15, 1985.

The first hard disk drive was invented in 1956 by IBM. It could store 5 megabytes of data and weighed over a ton.

The first graphical web browser was called Mosaic, and it was released in 1993 by Marc Andreessen and his team at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois.

 The first programming language was Fortran, which IBM developed in the 1950s.

The first microprocessor, the Intel 4004, was introduced in 1971. It had 2,300 transistors and could perform about 60,000 operations per second.

The first successful public demonstration of a mouse-driven graphical user interface was the Xerox Alto, which was developed in 1973.

The first commercial cell phone was the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, which was released in 1983. It weighed 2.5 pounds and cost $3,995.

The first digital camera was invented by Steven Sasson of Kodak in 1975. It weighed 8 pounds and had a resolution of 0.01 megapixels.

The first website to be hosted on a server was info.cern.ch, which was created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991.

The first social networking site was SixDegrees.com, which was launched in 1997. It allowed users to create profiles and connect with friends.

The first video game was called "Tennis for Two," and it was created by physicist William Higinbotham in 1958.

The first computer virus to cause widespread damage was the "Morris Worm," which was released in 1988. It infected thousands of computers, causing them to crash or become unusable.

The first commercial GPS system was introduced in 1989 by Magellan. It was called the NAV 1000 and cost $3,000.

The first message sent over the internet was "LO" (short for "login"), which was sent from a computer at UCLA to a computer at the Stanford Research Institute in 1969.

The first successful email marketing campaign was sent by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1978 to promote their new computer system.

The first portable computer was the Osborne 1, which was introduced in 1981. It weighed 24 pounds and had a 5-inch screen.

The first mass-market personal computer was the Apple II, which was introduced in 1977. It sold for $1,298 and had 4 kilobytes of memory.

The first commercial video game console was the Magnavox Odyssey, which was released in 1972. It had only 40 games, all built into the console.

The first website to offer online shopping was NetMarket, which was launched in 1994. It sold a Sting CD for $12.48.

The first commercial computer modem was the Bell 103, which was introduced in 1962. It could transmit data at a speed of 300 bits per second.

The first commercial computer printer was the IBM 1403, which was introduced in 1959. It could print at a rate of 1,100 lines per minute.

The first CD-ROM was produced in 1982. It could hold up to 550 megabytes of data, which was a huge amount at the time.

The first 3D printer was invented in 1983 by Chuck Hull. It used a process called stereolithography to create solid objects from digital models.

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