PART 4
/*Hope you learn something*/
- The term “bug” to describe a computer error was coined in 1947 when a moth got stuck in the Harvard Mark II computer.
- The first website was launched in 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee, and it was dedicated to information about the World Wide Web project.
- The first email was sent by computer engineer Ray Tomlinson in 1971, and it was sent between two machines that were side by side.
- The first Apple computer, called the Apple I, was built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in Jobs’ garage in 1976.
- The first digital camera was invented in 1975 by Kodak engineer Steve Sasson, and it weighed about 8 pounds.
- The first 1 GB hard drive was introduced in 1980 by IBM, and it cost $40,000.
- The first computer-generated movie was “Toy Story,” which was released by Pixar in 1995.
- The first computer chess program was created in 1951 by Christopher Strachey, and it ran on the Ferranti Mark I computer.
- The first computer modem was invented in 1962 by AT&T engineer John R. Pierce, and it transmitted data at a rate of 300 bits per second.
- The world’s largest computer chip, the Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine, measures 46,225 square millimeters and contains 1.2 trillion transistors.
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