Your humble little computer is an amazing device that has a rich history, some of which is sure to surprise you. Take a gander at these 13 amazing facts about computers and be prepared to have your mind blown!

  1. The earliest hard drives were only capable of holding a small amount of data. In those days, drives with a mere 20MB of space cost up to $800. That’s only enough space for a few songs! These days, thumb drives with 100 times as much space cost as little as $8 each.
  2. Major tech companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple and HP all began life in garages. The same holds true for Local computer repair in NJ, but they’re not global giants!
  3. Star Trek boasts a first in movie history: The first ever completely computer-generated scene. It was the scene in Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan that showcased the use of the Genesis device. The studio that created the scene would eventually become Pixar.
  4. Hard disk drives as we know them have been around only since 1979. Seagate developed the first one. It had a capacity of 5MB.
  5. The brain is still the most powerful computer, able to do 38 thousand trillion calculations per second (most of which you don’t even realize are happening) and boasting the equivalent of over 3,500 TB of memory.
  6. A team of 12 engineers at IBM playfully referred to as The Dirty Dozen developed the first IBM PC.
  7. Experts at MIT have created software that can tell the difference between a smile of happiness and a smile of frustration.
  8. In 1964, Doug Engelbart invented the computer mouse. Though similar to today’s computer mouses, it was made of wood.
  9. A CATCHPA is that assortment of random letters and numbers you have to enter in order to use certain websites. It stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.”
  10. The word “computer” refers to anything that takes user input and creates output based upon it. The world’s first computer was created in Babylon around 500BC with the invention of the Abacus, which used strings and beads to track calculations.
  11. The computer store Babbage’s was named after Charles Babbage, who in 1833 came up with ideas that a century later would lead to the world’s first modern computers.
  12. In 2009, the number of goods sold on the Internet had reached over $60 billion. The number is growing daily.
  13. More and more people use the Internet every day. By 2015, the number had risen to over 3 billion people. No wonder why so many people need the help of a NJ local computer repair service!

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