Computer Facts

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

The technology of a single Game Boy exceeds all the computing power that was used to put the first man on moon in 1969.

German inventor Konrad Zuse built the Z1, the world's first freely programmable computer using binary logic, between 1936-1938 in his parents' living room. His Z2, completed in 1940, improved on the design by introducing electromechanical relays for better reliability.

The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.

It’s not possible to create a folder named “con” on a Windows computer.

There's a video game called "Lose/Lose" that deletes a random file on your computer every time you kill an enemy.

In 1989, a British company made a laptop with a graphical user interface, a 60 hour battery life, SSD storage, and a touchpad.

IBM's Watson computer has 90 processors, 2,880 cores, 11,200 threads, 16 terabytes of RAM, and 4TB worth of data on its hard drive.