The path to modern-day computing is longer than many suspect, and strewn with interesting nuggets of information. These include:
The inventor of e-mail can't remember when he got it working.
Pac-Man was modelled on a pizza and called Puck-Man until vandals forced a name change.
The first hard drive had a 5MB capacity and could only be moved by a fork-lift truck.
Deep Blue's chess victory over Garry Kasparov was described as a 'psychological triumph'.
Full details of these milestones, and other gems of computing history.
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