- The first Computer Programmer is a woman(Ada Lovelace).
- The first computer virus appears in 1981; its name was Elk Cloner. The virus spread through Apple II floppy disks.
- 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.
- Charles Babbage's difference engine brought the first concept of programmable computer.
- PHP is the most used server-side programming language.
- 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.
- Python programming language has no switch statement found in most programming languages.
- www.google.com is the most visited website in the world, followed by www.facebook.com
- Java Programming Language was first named Oak.
- The goto keyword, though present in many High-Level programming languages, it is rarely used.
- The Morris worm is believed to be the first computer virus to be spread on the internet.
- Bill Gates learn to program computers when he was 13 years old.
- Java and JavaScript are not related in any way, except that they are both programming languages with C-like syntax.
- A computer does not need to be electronic.
- Array index in Fortran start from 1 instead of 0 like in most programming languages.
- It is estimated that there are over 2 billion individuals connected to the internet.
- Apple cofounder Steve Jobs and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg are both college dropouts.
- Apple and Google were all started in a garage.
- JavaScript is also called ECMAScript.
- The first computer bug was an actual bug(insect).
Tuesday, 14 June 2016
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