Rare Computer Facts That You Never Heard Before

Mario, one of the most popular video game characters was named after Nintendo's landlord.

Sony released the first matte black version of its Playstation in 1997, which enabled programmers to create their own games in the C programming language, called Net Yaroze.

William Higginbotham created what might have been the first video game in 1958. His game called 'Tennis for Two', was created and played on Brookhaven National Laboratory oscilloscope.

The first coin operated machine ever designed was a holy-water dispenser that required a five drachma piece to operate. It was the brainchild of the Greek scientist Hero in the first century AD.

Around 75 per cent of the music that is available for download has never been purchased and it is costing money just to be on the server.

The blue coloured links on a web page is just a browser default because way back on the days when monitors only had 16 colours, blue was the darkest colour that did not affect text legibility.

In 1977, the RIAA started their first crackdown on 'pirates' who shared .mp3 files. Many teenagers lost their computers in the crackdown.

1981 was the year that PCs began, when IBM distributed the IBM PC. Microsoft shipped it with BASIC. The operating system too was developed by Microsoft.

Optical chips were first introduced in 1988, as a faster way to make information travel on processors. However, they have not yet managed to replace electricity.

In 1988, the StrangeBrew virus became the first to infect Java files.

Recycling 100 million phones would recover 3.4 metric tons of gold - gold that would not have to be mined.