The first computer “bug” was a real insect: a moth found in a relay of the Harvard Mark II, taped into the logbook by its engineers.
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True facts from the history and present of technology that are hard to believe.
The computer that flew Apollo 11 to the Moon had about 4 KB of working memory — millions of times less than a phone today.
One of the first webcams watched a coffee pot in Cambridge, so researchers wouldn’t walk over to find it empty.
Almost all intercontinental internet traffic travels through cables on the ocean floor, not via satellites.
IBM’s first hard disk stored about 3.75 MB and weighed around a ton.
For years the world’s most common password has been “123456” — an attacker can crack it in under a second.