The first company who introduced the first laptop was Epson America in 1981 and its model?

an HX-20 JPEG stand for Joint photographic experts group A keyboard has its creators last name on it, in a straight line. Do you know it? His name was Mr. Qwerty. His creation is the format of most keyboards in existence today around the world. Apple is credited as the first successful computer with a mouse attached. But if youd seen the movie Pirates of Silicon Valley, youll know the story. Some Microsoft officials are concerned about the growing popularity of Linux because it could offer stiff competition to the Windows NT operating system. The word computer was first used to describe a mechanical calculating device in the year 1897. The word existed before, however at that time it was used to refer to a person. In 1963, Douglas Engelbart of the Stanford Research Institute invented the common computer mouse. Initially, it was known as the bug but later became popular as mouse because of the cord on these early models reminded people of the tail of a rodent. When the operating system Microsoft Windows 98 was released it contains approximately 18,000,000 lines of code. This is in contrast to the 3 million lines of code that Windows 3.1 contained. Windows 95 contained nearly 15,000,000 lines of code and Windows 2000 contains anywhere between 35 million and 60 million lines of code. During the 1984 Super Bowl, Apple Computer launched for the first time its brand-new Macintosh computer with a $1.5 million commercial. Among other things, the Macintosh boasted WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) word processing. At this time, the Macintosh sold for an affordable $2,500.

 The first portable computer was introduced by Osborne Compuer in 1981 andwas known as the Osborne I. Not exactly portable by todays standards, the Osborne I weighed almost 24 pounds. But, it was considered portable because it was light enough to carry and could also fit under an airplane seat. It sold for $1795, came with a standard 5inch display, two 5 floppy drives, 64 kB of memory, and a modem port. Be thankful for your Dell from the year 2002. Several computer engineers during the 1970s who worked at various research institutions pioneered the idea for connecting different computers together. This effort is known as the ARPANET (advanced research projects agency network), and is the forefather of the modern Internet. The first ARPANET link was established between Stanford Research Institute and UCLA on November 21, 1969. The first chess-playing computer to defeat a chess grandmaster was called Deep Blue. This computer defeated Garry Kasparov in May of 1997. Computers are everywhere. Check out computer vacuum! I bet you didnt know these great facts regarding the history and development of computers, as we know them today. There is so much great information out there that I bet you couldnt find a person who knew all of these facts that you just learned. I hope that youre leaving this article with a little bit more knowledge and a little bit more drive to share this trivia with your friends and family. General Computer Trivia Questions What do the letters "MS" in MSNBC stand for? (Microsoft) What new company was born when IBM sold its printer and Selectric divisions? (Lexmark) Which search engine uses its canine mascot, Alfie, to fetch results for users? (Dogpile.com) What was the name given to the device know known as the Palm Pilot when it was being developed? (Touchdown)

 Which operating system was developed by a college student named Linus Torvalds? (Linux) Which computer was launched in two distinct colors, Blueberry and Tangerine? (the ibook) What was the world's first personal computer? (the Kenbak1, which made its debut in 1971) Who was referred to as the "Master of the Universe" when he appeared on the cover of Time magazine in 1995? (Bill Gates) Ethernet is a registered trademark of what company? (Xerox) Unix is a registered trademark of which company? (AT &T) What does the letter "A" in RAM stand for? (Access) Which computer company was first to develop a mouse? (Apple Computers) Which company introduced the first laptop computer in 1981? (Epson) What was its model number? (the HX-20) What does JPEG stand for? (Joint Photographic Experts Group) [edit] Funny Computer Trivia Questions How big is a byte? (8 bits) How big is a nibble (4 bits) Is a bit bigger than a byte? (A byte is bigger than a bit.) A computer keyboard has the name of its inventor spelled out on it. What is the name? (QWERTY) Why are computer viruses known as "bugs"? (Early computers were very large; they used to take up whole rooms. Two programmers were looking inside a computer that wasn't working properly when they discovered a moth inside it. After they disposed of the moth, the computer started working again. One of the programmers mistakenly referred to the moth as a "bug," and over time the word

started being used to describe the situation where a line of code within a computer didn't work as it should.) What is Bill Gates' real name? (William Henry Gates III) What is a dongle? (A dongle is a word used to describe a device that is plugged into a computer's serial port. It is used to operate some types of software.) [edit] A Few Silly Computer Trivia Questions How can you tell that your computer is suffering from old age? (It suffers from memory loss.) What happened when the computer was dropped on the floor? (It slipped a disk.) How do you describe a computer virus? (It is known as a "terminal illness.) What part of the keyboard does an astronaut like best? (the space bar!) Computers only understand two digits, 0 and 1. This base two math is known as Binary. 1 represents on and 0 is off. When you type the letter M on your keyboard, it is translated to the Binary code of, 01001101. Every letter, number, pixel you see on your monitor is a binary set of 1's and 0's . An Intel 600 mhz CPU today has 9.5 million transistors and the aluminum conducting wires in the chip are 1/100,000th of an inch thick . An Athlon 600 mhz CPU has 22 million transistors. Moore's Law states that computer performance doubles every 18 to 24 months, and ever since Intel's 4004 chip in 1971, this has been true. The IBM RAMAC 305 in 1956 stored 5 megabytes of data which cost $10,000 per megabyte. Compared to today at less than a buck a megabyte. In 1998, 9.4 billion E-mail messages were sent per day. There are an estimated 800 million web pages available on the web and experts estimate the web doubles in size every 8 months.

Most of your computer electronics use from 3 to 5 volts Electrostatic discharge you can feel has around 3,000 volts - an ESD shock you can see carries 20,000 volts - an ESD shock of only 30 volts can destroy a computers circuit. In 1983 Microsoft built it's first mouse but only sold 5,000 of the 100,000 units built. It wasn't until Apple released the Macintosh a year later that a mass audience viewed the mouse as a tool to make computing easier. The term "Hypertext" was coined in 1965 by Ted Nelson who used it to describe the multimedia system he proposed called "Xanadu" Microsoft's TerraServer database stores more than one terabyte (1,000 gigabytes) of detailed aerial and satellite photos. SGI's Blue Mountain super computer at Los Alamos has 1.5 terabytes of RAM, more than any other computer on earth. In 1981 Bill Gates made the bold statement " 640kb of memory ought to be enough for anybody" Originally the WWW prefix was used by the scientists at CERN (the European laboratory for Particle Physics) to distinguish Web files from other Internet documents. Today, it's a completely unnecessary part of a Web address. (Personally, I can't forget to stop using it :-) The largest network on earth, the Internet, started in 1969 with four nodes installed at the University of California-Los Angeles, the University of Califorina-Santa Barbera, the Stanford Research Institute, and the University of Utah. Domain Name Extensions and Meanings: .com..........................commercial .edu..........................educational and research .gov..........................government .int............................international organizations .mil...........................military agency .net..........................gateway or host .org.........................non-profit organization A speck of dust inside a processor, although only the relative size of a soccer ball in the entire country of Ireland, is large enough to cause problems for the chip.

A Bit stands for "Binary Digit" a Bit can hold only one of two values 0 or 1. (see above) A Byte is composed of 8 consecutive bits. Clock speeds are expressed in megahertz (MHZ) 1 MHZ is equal to one million cycles per second. The computer I'm using now is running at 850 million cycles per second. In the old days an 80286 required 20 cycles to multiply two numbers, today, Processors can execute more than one instruction per clock cycle. The word "boot" or "booting" comes from the concept of bootstrapping, or pulling oneself up by the bootstraps. Before PC's, computer operators would run a program called the bootstrap loader. This loader did the initialization that is now automatic. The process became known as bootstrapping and later booting. As of March of 1999, there were over 364 million PC's in use worldwide with 129 million of those in the U.S In 1977, Kenneth Olsen, president and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., stated: "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home" The personal computer runs 400 times faster than the main frames of 30 years ago. There are 18 million lines of code in Windows 98. The first all purpose computer ENIAC required so much electricity to process information that the lights in the nearby town dimmed each time it was used. The fastest computer in the world is the CM-5 "thinking machine" at the Los Alamos National Labratories, USA. It can perform 131 billion operations per second. In 1963, Douglas Englebart, invented the computer mouse which was later pioneered by Xerox. When I read this quote I just had to put it in here :-) "If you take a bail of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike a match and set the bail of hay on fire, and if you then compare the energy expended shortly thereafter by the mule with the energy expended by yourself in striking the match, you will understand the concept of amplification" -William Shockley, co-inventor of the transistor.

Information is exchanged on every man, woman and child an average of 5 times a day in the US. Computer trivia questions from the 1990's are the subject of this page. Use them for your trivia games. What must -read magazine for computer fans bit the dust in 1999? A: Byte. What nationwide movie guide and ticket business became part of the AOL family in 1999? A: MovieFone.com. What Amazon founder was the first-dot-com exec to be named Time's Person of the Year? A: Jeff Bezos. What Apple portable debuted in a choice of two fruity color schemes, Blueberry or Tangerine? A: The iBook. What Outlook macro virus, with a dainty female name, was the first to infect a million computers? A: Melissa. What rural state provided WiFi for all residents, earning it a Yahoo "Most Wired City in America" award? A: Nevada. What Windows virus damaged 500,000 hard drives on the 13th anniversary of Russia's deadliest nuclear disaster? A: Chernobyl. What movie did Apple use to hype its new QuickTime4 format, sparking a netclogging 25 million downloads of the trailer? A: Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. What nasty 1999 computer worm, named after a lap dancer, first appeared inside a list of passwords to pornographic websites? A: Melissa. What communications giant owned Palm Computing when it produced the first handheld with integrated wireless Internet connectivity? A: 3com. What online service got slapped with a lawsuit by volunteer "Community Leaders" who said they were really employees and deserved back wages? A: America Online.

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 What game system, the first to come equipped with a modern, clogged up phone lines in Europe as many purchasers got online for the first time? A: Dreamcast. What computer outfit's ad 1984, run only once during Super Bowl XVIII, did TV Guide declare to be the best commercial of all time, in 1999? A: Apple's. What Apple media file format became the basis for MPGE-4 files? A: QuickTime. What did critics dub the glitchy USB "plug and play" feature of Windows 98? A: "Plug and pray". What file-sharing software was named for creator Shawn Fanning's frizzy hair? A: Napster. What high-tech upgrade did the New York Times dub "$90 Worth of Duct Tape" in 1998? A: Windows 98. What was the first fast-food restaurant to offer patrons 20 free minutes of Internet time? A: Burger King. What Pixar release was the first feature film to be entirely computer-animated? A: Toy Story. What high-tech mogul appeared on a 1995 cover of Time headlined "Master of the Universe"? A: Bill Gates. What website did the founder of the Echo Bay Technology Group register, when he found that echobay.com was already taken? A: eBay.com. What U.S. state capital's space-age new airport was plagued by software problems that kept dumping baggage all over the basement? A: Denver's. What company, while still called AuctionWeb, registered its first sale when bidding for a busted laser pointer topped out at $14? A: eBay.com. What search engine did Digital Equipment Corporation develop to manage its old e-mail? A: Alta Vista. What does the "W" stand for on a WAP phone? A: Wireless. What type of computer programs did the Dark Avenger Mutation Engine promise to make more powerful? A: Viruses.

 What computer accessory did Apple try splitting in two in 1993, in an attempt to reduce injuries? A: The Keyboard.