19 TECHNOLOGICAL FACTS ABOUT HISTORY OF COMPUTER, WHICH YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT THEM BEFORE LEARNING COMPUTER.

You must know about these 19 interesting facts about history of computer and technology.  

Interesting and important facts about history of computer. 

INTRODUCTION: Hi everyone  this is Chandan. Today I am going to tell you 19 interesting technological facts about history of computer. So if you want to read and learn about them. So you must know about these important and interesting facts about computer, today maybe anyone is in this world, who is not aware of computer, before reading about computer. We must know the history of computer. I hope you will learn these interesting facts about computer. And if you want to learn and read about anything, just comment me below. I will post on your topic. So let's start.

1 Alan Turning is considered as the father of Computer Science. In 1937, he published the paper "On Comparable Numbers, with an Application to the Entsheidungsproblem. 

2 Beginning in 1934, Konrad Zuse, a German engineer, built a series of Computers, the Z1 through Z4, utilizing binary arithmetic. 

3 Claude Shannon is usually called the father of Information Technology. In 1948, he published "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" in the Bell System technical Journal. 

4 The first high-level programming language was Fortran. It was developed in 1956 by an IBM team headed by John Backus. Fortran became Commercially available in 1957.

5 The first object-oriented language was Simula. It was developed by Kristen Nygaard and Ole-Johan Dahl in the mid 1960s.

6 1981 was the year that PCs began, when IBM debuted the IBM PC, Microsoft shipped it with BASIC. The operating system, too, was developed by Microsoft. 

7 The first computer ' the data-driven calculating machine was built in 1823 by Charles Babbage. 

8 Christopher Pile was sentenced to 18 months for releasing toolkit that would boost the impact of existing Viruses by randomising their codes.

9 In 1951, Jay Forrester and Robert Everette two graduate students at MIT, constructed the 'Whirlwind ', a real-time computer ', working at twice the speed of the ENIAC.

10 In 1969, computer firm Honey Well released the H316 " Kitchen Computer " ,the first home Computer, priced at $10,600.

11 It is much debated whether any single person can be said to have invented the first computer. Examples of candidates are Charles Babbage and Konrad Zuse.

12 In 1976 the term "Personal Computer" first appeared in print, in the May issue of Byte Magazine. 

13 In 1981, while working on the original version of Microsoft's Disk operating system (DOS) , Bill Gates made a remarkable prediction: " 640k ( of RAM) should be enough for anyone. 

14 The term 'bug' was probably coined after Admiral Grace Hopper found a month in the mark second computer at the US Naval Surface Warfare Center, causing the machine to malfunction. 

15 In 1970, Steve Wozniak played a huge prank by distributing 25,000 leaflets for a non-existent computer, which was later referred to as the Zaltair Hoax.

16 Jim Knoopf is known as the father of Shareware'. His first Shareware program was PC-File, in 1982, which knopf published under the pseudonym Jim Button.  

17 The ENIAC had 20,000 vacuum tubes and 40 racks of equipment, and ran up a daily electric bill of $60, a large amount at the time, the mid 1940s.

18 The first computer to perform a trillion operations per second was called the Gravity Pipeline.

19 Les Soromon, published of the magazine popular Electronics, and Ed- Roberts were looking for a name to release their new Computer under. They finally called it the Altair.

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