15 computer curiosities you didn’t know about

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• Microsoft considered calling Windows Interface Manager instead of the name we all know them by. The origin of this name represents the change in the graphical interface from the command line to a windowed interface. The name Windows came from the brain of Rowland Hanson, who was vice president of marketing at Neutrogena before joining Microsoft.
• the Windows does not allow creating folders which are named NUL, PRN, AUX and CON, because these are names reserved for the operating system.
• The first working computer was created in 1946 to calculate the projectile trajectory. It was created by the University of Pennsylvania in collaboration with the US Army. It weighed 27 tons and the software that managed it was created by 7 women.

• He first hard drive which hit the market had a price of $140,000, weighed 250 kg and had a capacity of 1 GB.
• The first storage unit, called a hard drive, was created in 1979 and could not store 5 MBquite a feat considering the fact that the flexes could barely store a little over 100 KB.
• The first virus really maliciouswas developed by the Farooq Alvi brothers in 1986, a virus that affected the boot sector and was designed to protect the research work they were working on.
• John McAfee, the creator of McAfee antivirus He said in a 2012 interview that he never used his antivirus because he didn’t like the way it had to work to protect a computer.
• The acronym of CAPTCHA in Spanish, it is the fully automated public Turing test to differentiate computers from humans.
• There first webcam in the world was created by researchers at the University of Cambridge to find out, without leaving your chair, whether the coffee machine was full or empty. They thus avoided walking the 60 meters that separated their offices from the café in vain.

• Alan Turing He is considered the father of computer science and artificial intelligence. He also helped break the codes used by the Germans during World War II. His life ended tragically when he committed suicide after being forced to undergo hormone treatment for his homosexuality and being prevented from continuing his work in cryptography.
• Although many users think otherwise, email is much older than the World Wide Web.
• Google, like Apple, Microsoft and HP, was born in a garage. The woman who rented the garage to Sergey Bin and Larry Page to found Google was Susan Diane Wojcicki, who in 2014 became the CEO of YouTube.
• The longest word you can type using the first row of letters on a keyboard with QWERTY layout Is it a typewriter, coincidence?
• The first concept of viruses as we know them today was called Boot licker, was created in 1971 and was designed as an experiment to see how it spreads from one computer to another, hence its name (Creeper means creeper). All computers where this virus concept arrived displayed the following message on the screen: I am the creeper. Catch Me If You Can!
• In 1936, the Russians created a computer ran on the water instead of electricity. The purpose of this computer was to calculate the stability of reinforced concrete structures, structures used in the construction of Russian railway lines.