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The first computer "bug" was a real moth — in 1947 Grace Hopper's team found it in a Harvard Mark II relay and taped it into the logbook.

The world's first website (info.cern.ch, 1991) is still online — and it loads faster than most modern pages.

The world's first programmer was Ada Lovelace — she wrote an algorithm in 1843, almost a century before the first computer existed.

Google's first server rack in 1996 was built from LEGO bricks — it held ten 4 GB hard drives.

Your smartphone is millions of times more powerful than the computer that took Apollo 11 to the Moon.

The first 1 GB hard drive (IBM, 1980) weighed about 250 kg and cost $40,000. Today 1 GB costs less than a cent.

E-mail is older than the web — the first e-mail was sent in 1971, twenty years before the first website.

There are more than 700 programming languages in the world — but knowing one or two well is enough to get hired.

The first registered .com domain was symbolics.com (1985). Today hundreds of thousands of new domains are registered every day.

Roughly half of all internet traffic comes from bots — which is why a technically clean site that crawlers can easily read is a real competitive edge.