The first 1 GB hard drive weighed about 250 kg
IBM’s 3380, released in 1980, stored 2.52 GB, was the size of a refrigerator and cost tens of thousands of dollars. A microSD card today holds a thousand times more.
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See all →Nintendo started in 1889 making playing cards
Long before video games, Nintendo was a Kyoto company that made hanafuda playing cards. It has been in business for over 130 years.
Read the fact →The first website is still online
Tim Berners-Lee’s page at info.cern.ch went live in 1991 and CERN restored it at its original address, where you can still read it.
Read the fact →The first computer bug was an actual moth
In 1947 operators of the Harvard Mark II found a moth stuck in a relay and taped it into the logbook with the note ‘First actual case of bug being found’.
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