1. The word algorithm comes from the name of the 9th century Persian mathematician Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi whose works introduced Indian numerals and algebraic concepts.

2. Brazil has the largest number of orkut users in the world followed by India.

3. The Graphical user interface and the mouse were invented at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). The management at PARC, at that time, thought that such a thing is useless !

4. The UNIX Operating System was originally written in Assembly language for PDP-7.

5. smalltalk is the first pure object oriented language.

6. JavaScript was originally developed by Brendan Eich of Netscape under the name Mocha, later LiveScript, and finally renamed to JavaScript.

7. RDF Site Summary, the first version of RSS, was created by Ramanathan V. Guha at Netscape in March 1999 for use on the My.Netscape.Com portal. This version became known as RSS 0.9.

8. Debian Linux is named after its creator Ian Murdock and his wife (then girlfriend) Debra Murdock.

9. Apple computers’ first logo showed Newton sitting under the fabled apple tree.

10. Wikipedia was founded by Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales.

11. The typical QWERTY layout for keyboards was designed to meet the technical limitations of mechanical typewriters rather than for ergonomics.The QWERTY layout is an invention of Christopher Sholes.

12. The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was developed at the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering between 1943 and 1946 by Eckert and Mauchly.

13. The first PC virus was a boot sector virus called (c)Brain[citation needed], created in 1986 by the Farooq Alvi Brothers, operating out of Lahore, Pakistan.

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