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Interesting facts about computers that you probably don't know

Interesting facts about computers that you probably don't know

Hey guys welcome to toperse and today I am going to present you some awesome facts about computers. Well computers have become a very important part of our lives and we cannot imagine our lives without them. So without any further discussion let's see the facts.


  • Well everybody enjoys playing video games on the computers. But do you know what were the first games? Well there are two games that were the first ever made in the US called Asteroids and Lunar Lander in 1980. Go and check it out.
  • There are over 6000 new viruses made each month.
  • Everybody uses computer mouse and most of the people cannot use computers without it. But do you know that the first computer mouse that was made was made of wood.
  • Do you know that we blink up to 20 times in a minute? But when you use computer this number decreases to 7. Looks like we have a lot of concentration in computers.
  • The first Apple computer ever made by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak was made from old parts they collected for free from their staff.
  • HP, Google, Microsoft and Apple all these tech giants started in garages.
  • Microsoft's project to develop a new operating system was code named "Interface Manager". However later they realised that the term "Windows" was more appealing, so they decided to name it "Windows" instead of "Interface Manager".
  • Today we use storage devices which storage devices which store a very high amount of data and so we do not consider 1 GB very large data. But back in 1980, when IBM made the first 1 GB hard drive it had a price of 40,000 dollars.

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