We appreciate modern technology for how it has simplified our lives now, but did you know that the fact that plenty of trials, errors, and weirdness circles had to be encountered before reaching what we are now?
The relentless march of technology has certainly contributed to taking the world where it is today, but while we celebrate the advancements technology has brought to us, today, in this AVCOE blog we marvel at some bizarre facts that you didn’t know before about the technology we all use almost every day.
The world’s first computer was driven by water
Vladimir Sergeevich Lukyanov built the world’s first computer in 1936 that solved differential equations in partial derivatives. The amazing fact is that the machine was run by water. It was eventually called the Water Integrator and many manufacturing plants, research organizations, and educational institutes used the water computers well into the 1970s.
Wikipedia is maintained by thousands of bots
Most of today’s internet users know about Wikipedia. But do you know that there are thousands of bots that currently maintain the Wikipedia pages? Today, there are around 2468 bot tasks approved to carry out maintenance jobs on more than 52 million Wikipedia pages.
You can visit the world’s first web page even today
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. It took another two years for the world’s first website to make its appearance. The world’s first webpage went live in 1991 and was hosted on a NeXT system at CERN. The amazing fact is that the first web page is still available for you to visit. It serves as a historical archive for everything available about the World Wide Web. You can visit here: http://info.cern.ch/
Google was up for sale in 1999
Larry Page wanted to sell Google in 1999. The deal was fixed at around $75000 and 1% share of the company that was willing to buy. But then the deal fell apart. Today, Google’s market cap is over $700 billion.
The first computer mouse was called ‘X-Y Position Indicator for Display Systems’
When the world’s first computer mouse was invented in the 1960s, it was called ‘X-Y Position Indicator for Display Systems’(referring to the X & Y axes). Engelbart was responsible for the name mouse, coined simply because the cable sticking out the end of the device reminded him of a rodent's tail.
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