Because it’s surrounded by a bunch of other balloons pressing evenly on it. There’s so place to pop.

Fewer

Who could forget alt.buddha.short.fat.guy and alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork?

Hardware is the physical part of computer.

Software is the code that runs on the computer to do the thing you want to do.

Firmware is the code that is installed on the hardware itself, usually in some sort of permanent or semi-permanent memory to make the hardware work.