Amazing Facts About Technology

Amazing Facts About Technology 

 

# Fact 1.The English word for red panda is "Firefox" which is where the browser gets its name from – this means the Firefox logo is actually a red panda, not a fox!


# Fact 2.In 1994, the company who had a patent on GIFs tried to charge a fee for using GIFS. The PNG was invented as an alternative, and the company backed down.

# Fact 3.The very first Apple logo featured Sir Isaac Newton sitting underneath a tree, with an apple about to hit his head.

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# Fact 4.The word robot comes from the Czech “robota“. This translates into forced labor, or work.

# Fact 5.You cannot reverse a Bitcoin transaction, or be forced to pay.


# Fact 6.The first ever VCR (Video Camera Recorder), which was made in 1956, was the size of a piano!

# Fact 7.Using a hands-free device to talk on the phone while driving is shown to be equally or more
dangerous than driving drunk.

# Fact 8.Credit card EMV chip technology has been around since 1986. It was first implemented in France, with Germany following shortly after.

# Fact 9.The Apple II had a hard drive of only 5 megabytes when it was launched in June 1977.

# Fact 10.Although GPS is free for the world to use, it costs $2 million per day to operate. The money comes from American tax revenue.


# Fact 11.Ubuntu is one of the more popular distributions of Linux.The word Ubuntu comes from an African word meaning “I am because of you”.

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# Fact 12.The Name “Macintosh” Was Inspired by an Apple with the name “mcintosh”
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# Fact 13.Doug Engelbart created the very first computer mouse from wood in 1964.

# Fact 14.Spam mail got its name from the canned meat after a Monty Python skit that made fun of Spam as tasting “horrible and being ubiquitous and inescapable.”

# Fact 15.In June 1983, the Apple Lisa was released; it was the first commercial computer with a graphical user interface (GUI) and a mouse.

# Fact 16.The original Xbox contained edited snippets of actual transmissions from the Apollo missions.

# Fact 17.In 1822, Charles Babbage created the first computer.

# Fact 18.86% of people try to plug their USB devices upside down.

# Fact 19.During the first live iPhone presentation, Steve Jobs had to frequently switch phones behind his desk. Otherwise, it would run out of RAM and crash.

# Fact 20 .The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.

# Fact 21.The average age of gamers in the United States is 35.

# Fact 23.Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37% fewer mistakes.

# Fact 24.The astronauts of Apollo 11 couldn’t get life insurance, so instead they signed photos that their families could auction in case the landing went wrong.

# Fact 25.In mobile games, 60% of all revenue came from only 0.23% of players.

# Fact 26.When signing up to iTunes, if you accept their Terms & Conditions, you agree to not use it to make nuclear weapons.

# Fact 27.When Snapchat launched in 2011, it was named Picaboo, but in 2012, it was renamed to Snapchat.

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# Fact 28.The very first domain name registered was www.symbolics.com, on the 15th March, 1985.

# Fact 29.According to the Message Anti-Abuse Working Group, between 88% and 92% of all emails that were sent in the first half of 2010 were spam.

# Fact 30.Anthony Greco was the first man ever arrested for sending spam messages in 2005.

# Fact 31.In May 2017, Samsung were given permission to carry out trials of a self-driving car in South Korea.

# Fact 32.On eBay, there is an average of $680 worth of transactions every second.

# Fact 33.The domain name www.YouTube.com was registered 14th February 2005.

# Fact 34.Amazon.com was previously known as Cadabra.com.

# Fact 35.The first ever Internet Service Provider (ISP) was a company named CompuServe.

# Fact 36.The original URL for Yahoo was http://akebono.stanford.edu
 

# Fact 37.The first country to build drones was Israel, with Israel Aerospace Industries heading the charge in terms of export numbers.

# Fact 38.In 1984, the number of internet devices reached 1,000.By 1992, it reached 1 million, and in 2008, the number of internet devices reached 1 billion!

# Fact 39.97% of people type in random words on Google, just to see if they spelled it right.

# Fact 40.There are over 35 billion Google searches every month.

# Fact 41.Apple have a ‘no smoking’ ban regarding their computers, which means if you smoke while using an Apple computer, you void the warranty.

# Fact 42.Using your phone while it is on charge can damage the battery; this is why the leads for the chargers are so short.

# Fact 43 /In 1973, the very first mobile phone call was made by Martin Cooper, who was an employee of Motorola. The call was made from the streets of New York City.

# Fact 44 /Nokia was founded in 1865 and its primary business was manufacturing paper.Nokia’s first mobile phones were released in the 1980’s.

# Fact 45.Technophobia is the fear of technology.

# Fact 46.The most expensive number ever sold was a mobile phone number "666-6666" which was put up for auction and sold for $2.7 million!

# Fact 47.Originally, the design for the first iPhone was literally the shape of an apple.

# Fact 48.Facebook has a blue color scheme because the creator, Mark Zuckerberg cannot see the colors red & green.

# Fact 49.Around 20% of all YouTube videos are music related.

# Fact 50.If you find a security bug in Facebook’s code, they are willing to pay from $500 for you to tell them about it!

‌# Fact 51.It is estimated that one in every eight couples in the U.S.who went on to marry each other met online.

# Fact ‌52.Someone on Twitter who has a million or more followers is known as a “Twillionaire”.
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# Fact ‌ ‌53.Google’s first ever Tweet on Twitter was in February 2009, and reads “I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010.”Translating from binary into English , this tweet says"I m feeling lucky."