Computer Facts 19

Computer Facts That You Never Heard Before

• Wii Sports is the biggest selling game of all time with over 46 million copies sold.

• In Spring 1967, MacHACK VI became the first chess program to beat a human at the Massachussets State Chess Championship.

• Deep Blue's chess playing program is written in C and runs under AIX operating system. It is capable of evaluating 10 crore positions per second.

• The first computer book to sell one million copies was 101 BASIC Computer Games which was published by Creative Computing in 1978 in the US.

• The "www" part of a web site (www.google.com) is optional and is not required by any web policy or standard.

• The first White House website was launched during the Clinton-Gore administration on October 21, 1994. Coincidentally, the site www.whitehouse.com linked to a pornography web site.

• As of July 2009, Microsoft Internet Explorer accounted for 67.68 per cent of all browsers used. Mozilla Firefox was used by 22.47 per cent of all users.

• By July 2008, Google had indexed an astounding 1 trillion (1000000000000) pages on the Internet.

• In 1966, Xerox invented the Telecopier - the first successful fax machine.

• In 1983 Fred Cohen first defined a computer virus as a "program that can affect other computer programmes by modifying them in such a way as to include a (possibly evolved) copy of itself

• The first DEFCON, an annual conference of penetration testers, security experts and hackers was held for the first time in 1993. The original idea of the conference was a send off party to the bulletin boards.

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