Computer World Info....... • Konrad Zuse invented the World’s first computer was named as the Z1 in 1936. It was the First freely programmable computer. • The first computer game was “Spacewar!".This game was programmed by Steve Russell and first released in February 1962. • Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce develop the first Integrated Circuit (The Chip) in 1958 • In 1954 John Backus & IBM develop first successful high level programming language FORTRAN Computer Programming Language • ARPAnet the first Internet connectivity started in 1969. • WordStar Software is the first release of Word Processors application developed by Seymour Rubenstein & Rob Barnaby in 1979. • Apple Lisa Computer is the first home computer with a GUI (graphical user interface) in 1983 • The first web browser was invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1990. It was called WorldWideWeb (no spaces) and was later renamed Nexus. • The first search engine created was Archie, in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a student of McGill University in Montreal. • On Aug. 6, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee published the first internet site ( http://www.w3.org /History/19921103- hypertext/hypertext /WWW/TheProject.ht ml) from CERN, the world’s largest physics lab in Geneva, Switzerland. • The first supercomputer was the Control Data Corporation (CDC) 6600 with a single CPU. It was released in 1964. • India's first supercomputer is PARAM 8000, which was installed in 1991. • NVIDIA's Tesla computer was launched in London in December 2008 is first personal supercomputer. • The first banner advertising was used in 1994. • The E-mail is older than the World Wide Web. • The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com. • Rich Skrenta generated the first computer virus in February 1982. He is the author of Elk Cloner, the first computer virus to be released outside of the lab. • The first version of Excel was released for the Mac in 1985 and the first Windows version was released in November 1987. • Nobody can create a folder named “Con” in windows system. • TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. • Each Excel worksheet holds 1,048,576 rows and 16, 384 columns which makes 17,179,869,184 cells per worksheet. • Up to last 100 actions can be undo in excel.

Day we have celebrated as: January • New Year's Day – 1st January • Day of Silence- 3rd January • NRI Day- 9th January • Laughing Day – 10th January • National Youth Day- 12th January • Army day- 15th January • National Voter's Day – 25th January • Indian Republic Day – 26th January • Martyr's Day- 30th January • Street Children's Day – 31st January February • National Girl Day -2nd February • World Cancer Day -4th February • Valentine's Day –14th February • National Science Day –28th February Days of the VALENTINE WEEK • Rose Day - February 7 • Propose Day - February 8 • Chocolate Day - February 9 • Bagels and Lox Day - February 9 • Pizza Pie Day - February 9 • Teddy Day - February 10 • Promise Day - February 11 • Kiss Day - February 12 • Hug Day - February 13 • Valentine's Day – February 14 March • International Women's Day – 8th March • No Smoking Day-13th March • World Disable Day – 15th March • World Consumer Rights Day – 15th March • Saint Patrick's Day – 17th March • World Poetry Day – 21st March • World TB Day – 24th March April • Fools' Day- 1st April • World Health Day- 7th April • World Parkinson's Disease Day-11th April • World Hemophilia Day-17th April • World Heritage Day- 18th April • Earth Day- 22nd April May • May Day-1st May • World Press Freedom Day-3rd May • World Red Cross Day- 8th May • National Technology Day- 11th May • Mother's Day- Second Sunday • International Nursing Day-12th May • Telecommunication Day-17th May • International Day for Biological Diversity-22nd May • Commonwealth Day- 24th May • World No-Tobacco Day-31st May June • International Children's Day- 1st June • World Environment Day-5th June • World Blood Donor Day- 14th June • Father's Day- 21st June • World Music Day-21st June • International Olympic Day-23rd June • International Anti - Drugs Day, International Day against Drug Abuse and illicittrafficking-26th June July • Doctor's Day-1st July • Independence Day in U.S-4th July • World Population Day-11th July • Kargil Vijay Divas-26th July August • World Breast Feeding Day- 1st August • International FriendshipDay-3rd August • Left Hander's Day-13th August • Indian Independence Day –15th August • World Photography Day-19th August • World Mosquito Day-20th August • Sanskrit Day-24th August • Women's Equality Day-26th August • National Sports Day-29th August September • Teacher's Day-5th September • World Literacy Day-8th September • Hindi Day-14th September • International Day of Democracy-15th September • Engineers Day-15th September • International Day of the Preservation of the Ozone Layer-16th September • International Day of Peace-21st September • World Alzheimer's Day-21st September • World Heart Day-24th September • World Tourism Day-27th September October • Mahatma Gandhi Birthday/International nonviolence day-2nd October • World Animal Welfare Day –4th October • Indian Air force Day- 8th October • World Post Day- 9th October • National Post Day- 10th October • World Food Day-16th October • United Nation's Day – 24th October November • Education Day (India) – 11th November • Children's Day (India) – 14th November • World Diabetes Day-14th November • International Student's Day- 17th November • Citizen’s Day- 19th November • Universal Children’s Day- 20th November • World Television Day- 21st November December • World AIDS Day – 1st December • World Handicapped Day- 3rd December • Navy Day- 4th December • International Volunteer Day- 5th December • Human Rights Day- 10th December • Farmer’s Day (Kishan Divas) - 23rd December • Christmas Eve – 24th December • Christmas Day –25th December • Boxing Day-26th December

Some interesting facts about life and the world: • A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off! • Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. • If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. • The eye muscles are most active muscles in the whole body. • You can't kill yourself by holding your breath • There is a city called Rome on every continent. • It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland! • Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day! • Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness. • The eye can process 36,000 bits of information every hour. • A normal lifespan will bring you almost 24 millions images of the world around you. • Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants. • Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. • Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th." • Coca-Cola would be green if coloring weren’t added to it. • On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute. • More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes. • The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words. • More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food. • Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand. • The placement of a donkey's eyes in it’s' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times! • The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish. • Earth is the only planet not named after a god. • It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA. • You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206. • Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food! • The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London • Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people • Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe! • The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump! • One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet! • Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different! • The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man • Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails! • Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin! • Women blink nearly twice as much as men. • Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle. • Dolphins sleep with one eye open! • It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open • The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds • Slugs have 4 noses. • Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue. • A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue! • The average person laughs 10 times a day! • An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain • The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime! • The most difficult item for a sewerage plant to process is pubic hair as it is insoluble. • Most lipstick contains fish scales! • It takes seven minutes for the average person to fall asleep! • The bullet-proof vest, windscreen wipers, laser printers and fire escapes were all invented by women! • In the 1880s, "pants" was considered a dirty word in England! • It was the Chinese who invented sun glasses in the 13th century!

Invention and Inventors..... What Who When Country Automatic calculator Wilhelm Schickard 1623 Germany Adding machine Blaise Pascal 1642 France Animation Emile Reynaud 1892 France Aspirin Dr. Felix Hoffman 1899 Germany Antiseptic Dr. Joseph Lister 1867 England Atom Bomb Julius Robert Oppenheimer 1945 U.S Barometer Evangelista Torricelli 1643 ITALY Ballpoint Pen László Bíró 1938 France Bifocal Lens Benjamin Franklin 1784 U.S Cement Joseph Aspdin 1824 England Cadmium Friedrich Stromeyer 1817 Germany Clarinet Johann Christoph Denner 1690 Germany Cash register James Ritty 1879 USA Cinema Lumiere brothers 1894 France Dental Plate Anthony A. Plantson 1817 U.S Diesel Engine Rudolf Diesel 1895 Germany Dynamite Alfred B. Nobel 1867 Sweden Electronic calculator IBM 1954 USA Electric stove/cooker William S. Hadaway 1896 USA Electric Battery Volta 1800 Italian Electric Generator Michael Faraday 1831 UK Electric Lamp Thomas Alva Edison 1879 U.S Electromagnet William Sturgeon 1824 England Elevator Elisha G. Otis 1852 U.S Fountain Pen Lewis Edson Waterman 1884 U.S Gramophone Thomas Edison 1878 U.S Gyrocompass Elmer A. Sperry 1908 U.S Hot air balloon Josef and Etienne Montgolfier 1783 France Helicopter Igor Sikorsky 1939 Russia Jet Engine Hans Von Ohain 1936 Germany Light bulb Heinrich Goebel 1854 Germany Lightning Conductor Benjamin Franklin 1752 U.S Microwave oven Percy Spencer 1947 USA Machine Gun Richard Gaffing 1861 U.S Motor Scooter Greville Bradshaw 1919 England Microscope Zacharis Janssen 1590 Netherlands Pacemaker Dr. Paul Zoll 1952 USA Pocket watch Peter Henlein 1510 Germany Pendulum clock Christiaan Huygens 1657 Netherlands Piano Bartolomeo Cristofori 1700 Italy Parachute Jean Pierre Blanchard 1785 France Revolver Samuel Colt 1835 U.S Small Pox Vaccine Edward Jenner 1796 England Steam engine Thomas Savery 1698 UK Steam boat John Fitch 1786 USA Saxophone Adolphe Sax 1846 Belgium Steam-powered airship Henri Giffard 1852 France Soft contact lenses Otto Wichterle 1961 Czech Stethoscope René Laennec 1816 France Submarine David Bushnell 1776 U.S Synthesizer Dr. Robert Arthur Moog 1964 U.S Telegraph Samuel Morse 1844 USA Telephone Scott Alexander Graham Bell 1874 Canada Time Recorder Harlow Bundy 1890 U.S Typewriter Peter Mitterhofer 1864 Austria Vaccination Dr. Edward Jenner 1796 England Vacuum Cleaner Ives McGaffey 1869 U.S X-ray Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen 1895 Germany

Nobel Prize ...... *.Alfred Nobel on 27 November 1895 signed his will for Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace. *.The prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace were first awarded in 1901. *.In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank established The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Science to Award Nobel Prize in Economics. *.Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway. Other prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden. *.Total 555 Nobel Prizes has been awarded between 1901 to 2012 (839 Laureates and 24 organizations) *.First Recipient of Nobel Prizes in 1901 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (Physics) Jacobus Henricus Van 't Hoff (Chemistry) Emil Adolf von Behring (Physiology or Medicine) Sully Prudhomme (Literature) Jean Henry Dunant, Frédéric Passy (Peace Prize) *.In 1969, Ragnar Frisch, Jan Tinbergen are the first recipient of Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. *.21 individual organizations have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. *.First Organization to Received Nobel Prize is Institute of International Law in 1904. *.International Committee of the Red Cross has been awarded three times, in 1917, 1944 and 1963. *.Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, has received the Nobel Peace Prize twice, in 1954 and 1981. *.Till now Nobel Prize awarded 44 times to women. *.Marie Curie is the first woman to received Nobel Prize in 1903. *.Only one woman, Marie Curie, has been honoured twice, with the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics and the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. *.The youngest Nobel Laureates is Lawrence Bragg at the age of 25 in Physics, 1915. *.The oldest Nobel Laureates is Leonid Hurwicz at the age of 90 Economic Sciences, 2007. *.Four people have received two Nobel Prizes:Marie Curie , Linus Pauling, John Bardeen, Frederick Sanger. *.Marie Curie is the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences. *.With total five, Curie family has received the most prizes: (Marie Curie received 2,Pierre Curie received 1,Irène Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot-Curie received 1,Henry Labouisse received 1). *.Till now two People decline Nobel Prize. First person to declined the Nobel Prize is Jean-Paul Sartre, in 1964 in Literature. *.First Nobel Laureates to be awarded under arrest is Carl von Ossietzky, Germany. *.Nobel Prize has only been awarded posthumously twice: Dag Hammarskjöld 1961 and Erik Axel Karlfeldt 1931. *.Nobel Prize winner of 2012: Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland (Physics) Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka ( Chemistry) Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka (Physiology or Medicine) Mo Yan (Literature) European Union (Peace Prize) Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley (Economic Sciences)