The first computer mouse was made of wood and had only one button. It was invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1964.
The world's first computer virus was called "Creeper" and was created in the early 1970s. It was not malicious but was designed to show how a virus could spread through a network.
The first electronic computer was called the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), and it weighed 27 tons!
The first computer hard drive was the size of two refrigerators and could only store 5 MB of data.
The QWERTY keyboard layout, which is still used today, was designed to slow down typing speed and prevent typewriter keys from jamming.
The first website ever created was published on August 6, 1991, by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web.
The term "bug" was first used in computing when a moth got stuck in a relay of the Harvard Mark II computer in 1947.
The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC), which helped guide the Apollo spacecraft to the moon, had only 2 kilobytes of memory.
The fastest computer in the world as of 2021 is the Fugaku supercomputer in Japan, which can perform 442 quadrillion calculations per second.
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