The world's first computer programmer was a woman named Ada Lovelace. She wrote the first algorithm for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine in 1843.
The term "debugging" comes from an incident in 1947 where Grace Hopper, a computer programmer, found a moth inside a computer and removed it to fix a problem.
The first computer virus was created in 1983 by a high school student named Fred Cohen.
The first website ever created was built in 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web.
The programming language Python is named after the Monty Python comedy group.
The first electronic computer, called the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), was created in 1946 and took up an entire room.
The programming language Java was originally called Oak.
The term "open source" was coined in 1998 by Christine Peterson to describe software that is freely available and can be modified by anyone.
The first computer mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1964.
The programming language C was developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs.