Techno Facts

  1. The founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, was a college drop out.
  1. Bill Gates house was designed using a Macintosh Computer
  2. The word robot comes from the Czech “robota“. This translates into forced labour, or work.
  3. CD’s, or Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, which is the reverse of how records work.
  4. The first ever VCR, which was made in 1956, was the size of a piano!
  5. On an average work day, a typist’s fingers travel about 12.6 miles.
  6. The first alarm clock could only ring at 4am.
  7. The 30th of November is known as “Computer Security Day
  8. The radio took 38 years to reach a market audience of 50 million.
  9. The television took 13 years to reach a market audience of 50 million.
  10. The iPod took 3 years to reach a market audience of 50 million.
  11. Skype is banned from the public in China.
  12. Alaska is the only state in America that can be typed on one row of a traditional English QWERTY keyboard.
  13. The Apple II had a hard drive of only 5 megabytes when it was launched.
  14. In 1822, Charles Babbage created the first computer.
  15. 1024 Gigabytes is equal to 1 Terabyte.
  16. 1024 Terabytes is equal to 1 Petabyte.
  17. 1 Petabyte can hold 13.3 years of HD-TV video.
  18. 86% of people try to plug their USB devices upside down.
  19. All the letter combinations from aaa.com to zzz.com have already been registered.
  20. Amazon now sells more eBooks than it does printed books!
  21. Amazon.com was previously known as Cadabra.com.
  22. The first ever Internet Service Provider (ISP) was a company named CompuServe.
  23. The original URL for Yahoo was http://akebono.stanford.edu
  24. The name Yahoo was created by Johnathan Swift for his book Gulliver’s Travels (1726) – which explained a yahoo to be a really ugly person.
  25. Up until the 14th of September, 1995, domain registration was free.
  26. The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
  27. In 1984, the number of internet devices reached 1000.
  28. In 1992, the number of internet devices reached 1 million.
  29. In 2008, the number of internet devices reached 1 billion!
  30. 97% of people type in random words on Google, just to see if they spelt it right.
  31. There are over 35 billion Google searches every month.
  32. An average of 60 billion emails are sent every day, 97% of which are spam.
  33. Only 4% of Arab women use the internet.
  34. 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.
  35. Nokia was founded in 1865 and its primary business was manufacturing paper.
  36. Nokia’s first mobile phones were released in the 1980s.
  37. Facebook has a blue colour scheme because the creator, Mark Zuckerberg cannot see the colours red & green
  38. Around 20% of all YouTube videos are music related.
  39. Websites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are banned in China.

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