Computer Facts

    Computer Facts

    List of funny, unbelievable, weird, and interesting computer fun facts. Featuring various computing trivia about things like the internet, Facebook, hardware, and software.

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    Lose/Lose
    Lose/Lose
    There's a video game called "Lose/Lose" that deletes a random file on your computer every time you kill an enemy.
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    A bag of marijuana was the first thing ever bought and sold over the internet.
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    The four ghosts in Pac-Man are programmed to act differently: red chases you, pink just tries to position itself in a set way, blue tries to ambush you and orange is random.
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    Cloud Computing
    Cloud Computing
    In 2012, a national survey found that 51% of people thought stormy weather affected cloud computing.
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    28% of IT Professionals hide their career from family or friends out of fear of being asked to provide free tech support.
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    MDIF, a New York based non-profit organisation, is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
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    Steve Jobs never wrote a single line of programming code.
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    Blocking Mark Zuckerberg
    Blocking Mark Zuckerberg
    You can't block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook.
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    45% of all online gamers are female, and women over the age of 18 are the industry's fastest growing demographic.
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    Mathway.com solves all kinds of math homework problems with step by step explanations.
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    In 1989, a British company made a laptop with a graphical user interface, a 60 hour battery life, SSD storage, and a touchpad.
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    The longest-running legal battle for a domain name is believed to be the fight for PETA.org. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sued People Eating Tasty Animals to obtain the name – the case spanned from 1995 to 2001.
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    20 years ago, there were only 130 websites, Google wasn't around, and you had to pay for an email account through an ISP.
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    Random Darknet Shopper
    Random Darknet Shopper
    There's a bot called the 'Random Darknet Shopper' that is given $100 in bitcoins every week to purchase random items on the darkweb. It ended up buying 10 ecstasy pills and the creator was subsequently arrested.
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    IMDb is one of the oldest websites on the internet, and began on Usenet in 1990 as a list of "actresses with beautiful eyes".
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    The ‘@’ sign is centuries old, and was used in Europe to denote a unit of weight (the “arroba”) equivalent to 25 lbs.
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    In 1956, the IBM 350 hard disk drive had 3.75 MB of storage, weighed over 2000 lbs, had to be moved around with forklifts, and was delivered via large cargo airplanes.
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    The first webcam was used in 1991 by Cambridge researchers for checking the coffee pot without leaving their desks.
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    In October 1997, when Internet Explorer 4.0 was released, some Microsoft employees left a giant "From the IE team... We Love You" on Netscape's lawn.
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    In 2013, AOL declared that they still made over $500 million a year through dial-up internet subscriptions.
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