20 Fascinating Facts About Computers

Computers have become an integral part of modern life, shaping the way we work, communicate, and entertain ourselves. Here are some fascinating facts about computers.

Interesting Facts About Computers:

1. More than fifty percent of computers in our sample are produced by brands such as HP, Dell, Lenovo, Acer, and Asus. Hewlett-Packard leads with nearly twenty percent of the market share.
2. Since 1980, the IBM 5120 has held the title of the heaviest desktop computer in history, weighing around one hundred and five pounds. This does not include the external floppy disk drive, which weighs an additional one hundred and thirty kilograms.
3. In the early days, when people did not foresee the vast growth of the internet, domain name registration was free until 1995.
4. Today, nearly half of all devices have 4GB of RAM, which is sufficient for most everyday tasks.
5. Only ten percent of the world’s money exists in physical form. The remaining ninety percent is virtual currency stored in bank accounts on computers.
6. Laptops are preferred by more than sixty-three percent of users.
7. The first computer virus was created in 1982 and targeted Apple technology.
8. The first laptop, introduced in 1981, weighed twelve kilograms.
9. Email was invented in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson, who also introduced the “@” symbol to separate the username from the mail server.
10. People who fear computers and everything related to them are known as cyberphobes.
11. At Microsoft, the world’s largest IT company, seventy-five percent of employees are men, while only twenty-five percent are women.
12. Three of the six richest people in the world have made their fortunes in the IT industry.
13. The Timex Sinclair 1000 is the world’s most successful computer priced under one hundred dollars.
14. When fully assembled, the width of the TI-99/4 computers (1979) from Texas Instruments can exceed three meters.
15. In 1979, Apple allowed the Apple II to be sold to public schools, for which they painted the beige casing black. At the time of its release, the Apple II had a hard drive capacity of only 5 megabytes.
16. The Windows 10 desktop background was not created by a graphic editor. Microsoft hired a photo studio to design it using a large setup with four screens, cameras, various light sources, and smoke effects.
17. In 1982, TIME magazine named the computer as its “Man of the Year.”
18. Before the invention of the electronic computer in the United States, computers referred to workers who manually calculated speedometers for complex tasks such as artillery platform calculations.
19. The first programmer in the world was a British woman, Ada Lovelace.
20. In 1956, the first computer had something resembling a hard drive.