Interesting Facts About Technology and Invention

The first computer virus, known as the Creeper virus, was created in 1971 as an experiment to see if it could self-replicate across computers.

In 1992, the first text message ever sent read 'Merry Christmas' and was sent from a computer to a mobile phone.

The first webcam was invented at Cambridge University to monitor a coffee pot, so researchers could avoid pointless trips if it was empty.

The QWERTY keyboard layout was designed in the 1870s to prevent typewriter jams by spacing out commonly used letters.

The first 1GB hard drive, released in 1980, weighed over 500 pounds and cost $40,000.

The term 'debugging' originated from an actual bug—a moth—being removed from a computer in 1947 by Grace Hopper's team.

The world’s first website, created in 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee, is still online and can be visited.

The first email was sent by Ray Tomlinson in 1971, and it was a test message whose content was most likely random letters.

The patent for the first telephone was filed by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876 just hours before a similar patent was filed by Elisha Gray.