Modern society cannot do without computer technology. And computer science teaches us to handle a computer. Interesting facts about her are not known to everyone. Computer science has been around much earlier than we thought. In terms of meaning, this science is no less necessary than mathematics. Interesting facts about computer science you need to know, because you can't do without it in our time.
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. The most popular social network is Facebook.
8. About 3 billion photos are posted monthly by users on Facebook.
9. In the entire history of computer science, it was possible to identify the most destructive virus - LoveLetter.
10. The largest and first computer attack was the one called the Morris Worm. She caused approximately $ 96 million in damage.
11. The term "computer science" was introduced by Karl Steinbuch.
12.Of all HTTP errors, users most often encounter the 404 Not Found status.
13. On America's first typewriters, buttons were arranged in alphabetical order.
14 Douglas Engelbart invented the computer mouse.
15. In 1936 the word "spam" appeared.
16. The world's first programmer was a woman named Ada Lovelace. She was originally from England.
17. The founder of computer science was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
18. The first creator of a computer in our country was Lebedev.
19. The most powerful computing machine is the Japanese supercomputer.
20. In 1990, the first network in Russia was connected to the Internet.
21. The highest honor for achievement in the field of computer science is the Turing Prize.
22. For the first time in 1979, emotion was transmitted electronically. Kevin Mackenzie did it.
23.Before the creation of the first calculating machines, the word "computer" in America was called a person who performs calculations on adding machines.
24. The first laptop weighed 12 kilograms.
25.The first dot matrix printer was released in 1964.
26 e-mail was created in 1971.
27. The first domain registered was Symbolics.com.
28. Approximately 80% of all photographs available on the Internet are naked women.
29. Google uses an estimated 15 billion kWh.
30. Today, approximately 1.8 billion people are connected to the Internet.
31. The largest percentage of Internet users in Sweden.
32. Until 1995, domains were allowed to be registered free of charge.
33. Every 8th married couple started dating their partner-necks on the Internet.
34. Every minute 10 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube.
35. Electronic mail was introduced before the Internet.
36.The largest computer network consists of 6,000 computers. It serves the Large Hronron Collider.
37. The most common cause of computer breakdown is liquid spills on the keyboard.
38. Every day a computer network is attacked by an average of 20 viruses.
39. The first speech recognition system originated in India.
40. Engineers from Denmark have succeeded in developing a computer with which a cow can milk itself.
41. The first programming language for an electronic computer - Short Code.
42. The first Internet service provider in the history of computer science was called Compuserve. It was founded in 1969 and is today owned by AOL.
43 On September 19, 2005, the record was set for the number of identical searches on Google. It was on that day that millions of people used the phrase “hurricane rita”.
44.The term "informatics" was created from two words "automation" and "information".
45. Computer science is a practical science.
46 The first working mechanical calculator was created by Blaise Pascal.
47. Informatics as an academic discipline was first used in the USSR in 1985.
48. It is April 4 that is celebrated as World Internet Day.
49. The one who sits at the computer for a long time blinks at least 7 times a minute.
50. Cyberophobes are people who are afraid of computers and everything connected with them.
