Computer Facts

    Random Computer Facts

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    HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple have one thing in common – apart from the obvious that they are IT companies. They were all started in garages.
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    MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.
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    MDIF, a New York based non-profit organisation, is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
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    Random Darknet Shopper
    Random Darknet Shopper
    There's a bot called the 'Random Darknet Shopper' that is given $100 in bitcoins every week to purchase random items on the darkweb. It ended up buying 10 ecstasy pills and the creator was subsequently arrested.
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    GTA Origin
    GTA Origin
    Grand Theft Auto was originally a racing game called Race’n’Chase. However, a glitch made the police cars go crazy, ramming the player. This glitch was so popular with testers that they rebuilt the game around it, creating GTA.
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    If you opened up the case of the original Macintosh, you will find 47 signatures. One for each member of Apple's Macintosh divison as of 1982.
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    The world's first computer, called the Z1, was invented by Konrad Zuse in 1936. His next invention, the Z2 was finished in 1939 and was the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer.
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    Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
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