Tuesday 14 June 2016

DID YOU KNOW?


  1. The first Computer Programmer is a woman(Ada Lovelace).
  2. The first computer virus appears in 1981; its name was Elk Cloner. The virus spread through Apple II floppy disks.
  3. The Windows operating system use backslash in its directory hierarchy, while Unix and other Unix-Like operating systems use the forward slash in their directory hierarchy.
  4. Charles Babbage's difference engine brought the first concept of programmable computer.
  5. PHP is the most used server-side programming language.
  6. The word "Hacker" is used to call computer enthusiasts in the early days of computers. But it is now used universally as a synonym for a computer criminal.
  7. Python programming language has no switch statement found in most programming languages.
  8. www.google.com is the most visited website in the world, followed by www.facebook.com
  9. Java Programming Language was first named Oak.
  10. The goto keyword, though present in many High-Level programming languages, it is rarely used.
  11. The Morris worm is believed to be the first computer virus to be spread on the internet.
  12. Bill Gates learn to program computers when he was 13 years old. 
  13. Java and JavaScript are not related in any way, except that they are both programming languages with C-like syntax. 
  14. A computer does not need to be electronic. 
  15. Array index in Fortran start from 1 instead of 0 like in most programming languages.
  16. It is estimated that there are over 2 billion individuals connected to the internet. 
  17. Apple cofounder Steve Jobs and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg are both college dropouts.
  18. Apple and Google were all started in a garage.
  19. JavaScript is also called ECMAScript.
  20. The first computer bug was an actual bug(insect).

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