Computer Facts 14

Rare PC Facts That You Never Heard Before

• In 1988 Electronic Arts became the first major publisher to release an 'online' multiplayer game. Dan Bunten's Modem Wars allowed two players to sit at their own computer and play over a telephone line.
  

• While games such as Doom, Marathon, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D and GoldenEye 007 may have defined the first-person shooter genre, the first documented 'first person shooter 3D multiplayer networked game' was called Spasim (space + simulation = Spasim). It appeared in 1974 and could be played by up to 32 people.
  

• It is believed that Subash Ghai's film Taal was the first Bollywood movie to be widely promoted on the internet.
  

• The first internet worm was created by Robert Morris, Jr, and attacked more than 6,000 internet hosts.
  

• Lee Stein invented the first online electronic bank in 1994 entitled, "First Virtual Holdings".
  

• Official statistics in the UK say that 29 per cent of women have never used the internet, but only 20 per cent of men.
  

• WorldWideWeb was programmed with Objective C.
  

• In Britain on January 1st 1985, the first call on a mobile phone was made by Ernie Wise, comedian and one half of the famous duo Morcambe and Wise.
  

• If you want to sell your book on Amazon.com, you can set the price, but then they will take a 55 per cent cut and leave you with only 45 per cent.
  

• The Lehigh virus, was one of the first file viruses back in 1987 that infected command.com files.
  

• Money for Nothing by the Dire Straits was the first music video to use computer generated graphics in 1985.
  
  

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