Facts

Published June 9, 2018

The first ever home video game developed was in 1967. It was called Brown box, because it looked like one.


The first computer of the world, the ENIAC, weighed around 27 tonnes and occupied an entire hall.


The internet and the World Wide Web are not the same thing.


While robotics is one of the fields that scientists are focusing on now, Leonardo Da Vinci sketched the plans to build a robot way back in 1495.

Published in Dawn, Young World, June 9th, 2018

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