{"id":80,"date":"2023-05-14T15:19:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T15:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/busybeetech.co.uk\/?p=80"},"modified":"2023-05-14T15:19:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T15:19:32","slug":"fun-internet-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.busybeetech.co.uk\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"Fun Internet Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The first computer was the ENIAC, which was built in 1946.<\/strong> It weighed 30 tons and took up 1,800 square feet of space.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The first computer mouse was invented in 1964 by Douglas Engelbart.<\/strong> It was made of wood and had two wheels.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The first commercial computer game was Pong, which was released in 1972.<\/strong> It was a simple tennis game that could be played on two TVs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The first personal computer was the Altair 8800, which was released in 1975.<\/strong> It cost $439 and came in a kit that had to be assembled by the user.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The first graphical user interface (GUI) was developed by Xerox in 1973.<\/strong> It was called the Alto and featured a mouse, icons, and windows.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The first Apple Macintosh computer was released in 1984.<\/strong> It was the first mass-produced computer with a GUI.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The first internet browser was called Mosaic, which was released in 1993.<\/strong> It was developed by a team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The first social networking site was Six Degrees, which was launched in 1997.<\/strong> It allowed users to connect with friends of friends.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The first smartphone was the BlackBerry, which was released in 2002.<\/strong> It featured a physical keyboard and a BlackBerry Messenger app.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The first tablet computer was the iPad, which was released in 2010.<\/strong> It had a large touchscreen display and ran on the iOS operating system.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The first virtual reality headset was the Oculus Rift, which was released in 2016.<\/strong> It allowed users to experience virtual worlds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These are just a few of the many fun computer facts that there are. Computers have come a long way since their humble beginnings, and it will be interesting to see what the future holds for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are just a few of the many fun computer facts that there are. Computers have come a long way since their humble beginnings, and it will be interesting to see what the future holds for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,52,54,55,60,177,290,296,313,339],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-computer-games","tag-computer-history","tag-computer-inventions","tag-computer-pioneers","tag-computer-technology","tag-internet-browsers","tag-smartphones","tag-social-networking","tag-tablet-computers","tag-virtual-reality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.busybeetech.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.busybeetech.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.busybeetech.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.busybeetech.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.busybeetech.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.busybeetech.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.busybeetech.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.busybeetech.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.busybeetech.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}