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The first video published on YouTube is called Me at the zoo.
The first YouTube video, published on 23 April 2005, is called Me at the zoo and shows Jawed Karim, one of the…
The first email was sent in 1971 and used the at sign to separate the user name from the machine.
Ray Tomlinson, an ARPANET engineer, sent the first email in 1971. He chose the at sign because it was not used in…
The world's first website is still online.
The first website was created by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1991 to explain what the World Wide Web was. The page can…
The computer mouse was invented in 1964 by Douglas Engelbart.
The first computer mouse was built in 1964 by Douglas Engelbart at the Stanford Research Institute. It was made of…
Bluetooth technology was named after a 10th-century Viking king.
The name Bluetooth comes from Harald Bluetooth, a king of Denmark who unified Danish and Norwegian tribes in the 10th…
The world's first webcam was created to monitor a coffee pot.
In 1991, researchers at the University of Cambridge connected a camera to a computer to check whether the lab coffee…
The first video game was created in 1958 by an American physicist.
The first video game was Tennis for Two, created in 1958 by William Higinbotham, a physicist at Brookhaven National…
The word robot comes from a Czech play from 1920.
The word robot was first used in the play R.U.R., by Czech writer Karel Čapek, in 1920. The word comes from the Czech…
The first floppy disk was 8 inches in diameter.
The first floppy disk was created by IBM in 1971 and was 8 inches in diameter. It stored about 80 kilobytes of data…
Apple's first computer was sold in 1976 for 666.66 dollars.
The Apple I was Apple's first computer, sold in 1976 for 666.66 dollars. It was hand-built by Steve Wozniak and sold…
The.tv domain belongs to the small country of Tuvalu.
The.tv internet domain belongs to the small Pacific island country of Tuvalu. The country licensed the domain in the…
The term Wi-Fi does not mean anything.
Wi-Fi was a name invented by a marketing company for a wireless communication standard. In fact, it does not mean…
The first computer virus appeared in 1971 and was called Creeper.
The first known computer virus was called Creeper and was created in 1971 by Bob Thomas on ARPANET. It was not…
Ethernet was invented in the Xerox PARC laboratories.
Ethernet was invented in 1973 by Bob Metcalfe at the Xerox PARC laboratories in California. It was created to connect…
A sand battery can store thermal energy for months.
The sand battery heats sand up to 500 degrees Celsius using surplus electricity from renewable sources. The heat is…
Morse code was invented by Samuel Morse in 1837.
Morse code was invented by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail in 1837 for the telegraph. Each letter is represented by a…
IBM's first hard drive had 5 gigabytes of capacity.
The IBM 305 RAMAC, launched in 1956, is considered the first computer with a hard drive. The drive had 5 megabytes of…
A brain-computer interface managed to decode speech and singing from brain waves.
A system developed by researchers uses artificial intelligence to decode brain waves into expressive speech and even…
In 1997, the computer Deep Blue beat the world checkers champion.
IBM s Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in a six-game match in 1997. It was the first time a computer beat a world…
Wikipedia exists in more than 300 languages.
Wikipedia exists in more than 300 languages and, in 2024, surpassed 60 million articles across all versions. It is…
The world's first webcam was created to monitor a zoo.
In 1991, researchers at the University of Cambridge set up a camera pointed at the laboratory coffee pot so they…
The term computer bug originated when a moth got stuck in a computer in 1947.
In 1947, a team of researchers found a moth stuck inside a primitive computer. The creature was removed and taped…
The first website was created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991.
The first website, info.cern.ch, was created by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1991. It explained what the World Wide Web…
The first tweet was sent by Elon Musk.
The first tweet was sent by Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, on 21 March 2006. It said just setting up my twttr…