Technology Facts for Kids
Cool facts about computers and tech
Alan Turing helped crack Nazi Germany's Enigma code in World War II, helping end the war sooner.
Alan Turing proposed a test to determine whether a machine's behavior is indistinguishable from a human's.
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple in 1976 in a garage in California.
Bill Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft in 1975, which became the biggest software company in the world.
Linus Torvalds created the Linux operating system in 1991 and made it free for anyone to use.
Open-source software is software whose code is free to view, use, and improve by anyone.
Minecraft, originally created by one person (Markus Persson), has sold over 238 million copies worldwide.
The first home video game console was the Magnavox Odyssey, released in 1972.
Atari's Pong arcade machine, released in 1972, was one of the first commercially successful video games.
Super Mario Bros., created by Shigeru Miyamoto, became one of the best-selling video game series of all time.