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