Fun Facts About Computers

By July 24, 2018Parent Tips
  1. The first electronic computer ENIAC (‘Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer’) was built in 1943 in America. It weighed more than 27 tons and was the size of a large room.
  1. ENIAC took 70 hours to work out pi (to 2000 decimal places. A modern computer can work out a million decimal places of pi in about ten seconds.
  1. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that you can write using the letters on the top row of the keyboard of your computer.
  1. An average person normally blinks 20 times a minute, but when using a computer they blink only 7 times a minute.
  1. Google, Apple, Disney and Kip McGrath have one very interesting thing in common – they were all started in a garage.