Interesting Facts About the Computer

• the first computer maker in the world
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Sir Harold Thomas Flower. He is the maker of the world's first electronic computer in 1941 called Colossus and the password used by the Unit-breaking British Military Secrets to decode Nazi radio transmissions.


• The name of the first commercial computer in the world
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ENIAC (Electronic numerator Intregrator Analyzer and Computer) was the first commercial computer in the world. This computer weighs 60.000 pounds and the size of one large room. ENIAC was completed in 1945. ENIAC was originally created for military purposes. This computer can not store data.


• The richest man in the world because computer software
William Henry Gates, or more commonly referred to as Bill Gates is the richest man in the world during the last 12 years (according to the magazine Forbel). Gates is the founder and chairman of Microsoft company engaged in software. He is also the founder of Corbis company engaged in the field of digital image archive.


• There are insects (bugs) in computer
Insects, in English or a bug, it could have gone in the casing. But the intended insects or bugs for the computer is not a live insect. Bug is an error or failure in a computer program so it does not function properly. For example, when we cool to play the game, suddenly the computer hangs or freezes. The bug usually occurs because of lack of caution programmer in writing programs, could also be due to a program requires 128 MB memory and a computer with 64 MB memory is forced to save the program with that much memory, so there is a failure because of lack of memory.


• The first computer bug
The first bug was a moth. In 1945, Grace Murray Hopper and his team are working on the computer calculator Mark II Aiken Relay Harvard University. Then the computer problem. After looking for the cause, there were bees at Relay # 70 in panel F. Bees were then removed. Since then the term bug is used as the damage in the computer work. The term to get rid of bugs is called debugging.


• Modem first
Around the 1950s, the American air defense request made tools to send data over the phone. The first commercial modem was made AT & T and Bell 103 in a tender launched in 1962 with a speed of 300 bits / second. In 1996 the existing modem with a speed of 56,000 bits / second.


• Computer Game
1947 is considered as the year when the game was first played on the CRT tube.Still a simple game, on a plane to shoot a target. At that graphics can not be described electronically on the CRT screen. 1950s, created the first graphical game with the Tic-Tac-Toe. Most of the early computer game created by the University.1960 created Spacewar game played by two people. This is the first game sold widely and instantly became the most popular game at that time.

• The most expensive game
There gameboy made of 18 carat gold and encrusted with diamonds around the screen. Game Boy was created by Aspreys of London, the price is $ 25,000.00 USD, or approximately USD 225 million. This is a gameboy most expensive ever sold. PDP-1 sold by the game Space Wars and was made in 1960, the price is $ 120,000.00 USD which is now equivalent to $ 760,000.00 or USD 6.84 billion. This is the most expensive game system ever sold. Shenmue game was made for 7 years to 1999 and development costs more than $ 20,000.000. Shenmue was made for the Sega Dreamcast. Shenmue is the most realistic games available on the market at that time and is the most expensive computer game ever sold.


• The most expensive mouse pad
Mouse pad or mouse mat is used for a flat surface and a computer mouse can work well. There is a mouse made handmade in the UK for Formula 1 by a technician. Mouse pad is made of solid carbon fiber. It costs about $ 489.00 or approximately USD 4.4 million. This mouse pad is the world's most expensive ever sold.


• Store the first computer
In July 1975, Dick Heiser opened the first computer store called "The Computer Store" in California. The Computer Store sells computer equipment, books and magazines related to computers.


• The first virus that causes the highest losses
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In 2004, SCO Group Inc.. in Colorado fell ill from the virus MyDoom worm DDOS.The drawback to $ 38.5 billion USD, or about Rp.346.5 trillion. SCO Group to award $ 250,000 or approximately USD 2.25 trillion to catch the virus MyDoom.B. Other viruses that have been known to cause large losses are: viruses SoBig which causes loss of $ 37.1 billion or Rp 333.9 trillion, viruses Love Bug menyebabkab loss of $ 15 billion or about Rp 135 trillion, and the virus Code Red that caused losses of up to $ 2 billion, or about Rp 18 trillion .


• Character computers that most high cost of manufacture
Smeagol the Gollum, is one of the characters in the film The Lord of the Rings created by Weta Digital. With more than 200 facial expressions and muscle movements 300, this is the character most expensive computer ever made.


• Web browser first
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NCSA Mosaic was made by Marc Andreesen of National Center for Supercomputing Applications in April 1993 for specific purposes. But WorldWideWeb Tim Berners-Lee created in December 2000 is considered as the first web browser due to extensive use. His name was later changed to Nexus. In October 1994, Netscape released a beta version of Mozilla and became the first commercial web browser.


• The first Website
Timithy Sir John "Tim" Berners-Lee was the first person who created the world wide web in August 1991. His website is http://nxoc01.cern.ch.


• The first commercial Website
In October 1994 HotWired start thinking to accept advertising on the Internet because the Internet is now used by the public at large. AT & T to install 468 x 60 banner posted on the website HotWired site. This is the first advantage of the internet. Dale Dougherty in 1993 launched the Global Network Navigator, which AOL bought in 1995, this is regarded as the first commercial web site.


• Webcams first used
In 1991, Paul Jardetzky, Qunetin Stafford-Fraser and Cambridge University students create a program to display images on-line. In 1993, a new web widely available to all Internet users.


• Search engine first
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The first engine designed for the Internet created in 1993 under the name World Wide Web Warderer (Wadex). WebCrawler, 1994, is the first search engine based on texts such as search engines are now.


• A computer that can beat chess grandmasters
IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer was the first computer to beat chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov, in 1995 in Philadelhia, the United States. PhD students at Carnegie Mellon University, Feng-hsiung Hsu, Murray Campbell and Thomas Anatharaman created Deep Blue in 1985 which is a computer chess game the fastest and the greatest ever made. This computer could choose the step movement of chess pieces from thousands of movements contained within the data warehouse. Deep Blue is also capable memperkiraka up to 200 million in a second movement, really great when compared to Kasparov who is only able to estimate the three movements in the same time. One advantage in Deep Blue are never forgotten or distorted by his opponent.