INTERESTING FACTS – COMPUTER SCIENCE
1. Interesting facts from the world of computer science confirm that for the first
time they started talking about this science in 1957.
2. At first, only the technical field was called informatics, which carried out
automatic processing of information using a computer.
3. The first electronic computer (ECM) in the USSR was registered in 1948 and it
was created by Bashir Iskandarovich Rameev.
4. Programmer's Day is celebrated on September 13th.
5. The electronic computer was created for six months, and the logic circuits in it
were created on semiconductors.
6.In the 60s, the ARPANET was the prototype of the Internet.
7. About 3 billion photos are posted monthly by users on Facebook.
8. In the entire history of computer science, it was possible to identify the most
destructive virus - LoveLetter.
9. The largest and first computer attack was the one called the Morris Worm.
She caused approximately $ 96 million in damage.
10.Of all HTTP errors, users most often encounter the 404 Not Found status.
11. On America's first typewriters, buttons were arranged in alphabetical order.
12 Douglas Engelbart invented the computer mouse.
13. In 1936 the word "spam" appeared.
14. The world's first programmer was a woman named Ada Lovelace. She was
originally from England.
15. The founder of computer science was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
16. The first creator of a computer in our country was Lebedev.
17. The most powerful computing machine is the Japanese supercomputer.
18. In 1990, the first network in Russia was connected to the Internet.
19. The highest honor for achievement in the field of computer science is the
Turing Prize.
20. For the first time in 1979, emotion was transmitted electronically. Kevin
Mackenzie did it.
21.Before the creation of the first calculating machines, the word "computer" in
America was called a person who performs calculations on adding machines.
22. The first laptop weighed 12 kilograms.
23.The first dot matrix printer was released in 1964.
24 e-mail was created in 1971.
25. The first domain registered was Symbolics.com.
26. Approximately 80% of all photographs available on the Internet are naked
women.
27. Google uses an estimated 15 billion kWh.
28. Today, approximately 1.8 billion people are connected to the Internet.
29. The largest percentage of Internet users in Sweden.
30. Until 1995, domains were allowed to be registered free of charge.
31. Every 8th married couple started dating their partner-necks on the Internet.
32. Every minute 10 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube.
33.The largest computer network consists of 6,000 computers. It serves the
Large Hronron Collider.
34. The most common cause of computer breakdown is liquid spills on the
keyboard.
35. Every day a computer network is attacked by an average of 20 viruses.
36. The first speech recognition system originated in India.
37. Engineers from Denmark have succeeded in developing a computer with
which a cow can milk itself.
38.The Fugaku supercomputer in , Japan, has raised the bar for a superior
computer capable of handling complicated and heavy issues and applications.
39.Intel’s 1 KB RAM memory chip was the biggest memory chip available in 1969.
40.A single computer program detects over half of all Wikipedia vandalism with
more than 90% precision.
41 . When it comes to earning a degree in computer science, it takes hard
work and commitment. That’s why it’s good to know what may happen
after you graduate. Computer scientists work in a variety of industries.
This is because the world is becoming more and more dependent on
computers and technology.
42.According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the field of
computer science is growing much faster than average at 16%
growth per year. Computer scientists can work in a wide array of
job titles, including: software developer, computer and
information systems manager, computer programmer, web
developer, and more.
