It’s an era of Technology and we can’t expect a good life without Technology. Social media platforms are our life now :P. And, Digital Marketing is evergreen :). In this post, I’m going to share some of the interesting & lesser-known facts about Technology.
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- The first mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1963; it consisted of a hard wooden shell and two clunky metal wheels.
- The first personal computer was created by Berkeley Enterprises. Affectionately referred to as Simon, it sold for a pricey $300 in 1950.
- Google handles an estimated 1 billion search queries each and every day, releasing almost 200 tons of CO2 per day.
- Candy Crush has more active monthly users than the entire population of Canada.
- IBM Simon is the world’s so first so-called Smartphone.
- Nokia was founded in 1865 and its primary business was manufacturing paper and its first mobile phones were released in the 1980s.
- Google hired a camel to create a street view in a desert.
- Bill Gates’ house was designed using a Mac computer.
- 28% of IT professionals hide their career from friends and family to get out of giving free tech support.
- The 30th of November is known as “Computer Security Day”.
- The original name of Windows was Interface Manager.
- TIME Magazine named the computer the “Man of the Year” in 1982.
- Domain name registrations were free till 1995.
- Did you know that http://symbolics.com was the first ever domain name registered on 15th Match 1985?
- The first search engine was Archie, created by Alan Emtage in 1990.
- The Firefox logo is a red panda, not a fox which is native to the temperate forests of the Himalayas.
- Google Inc. owned over 1 million servers which are the largest in the world.
- The most expensive domain name sold was VacationRentals.com for $35 million in 2007.
- Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and many other popular websites are banned in China.
- The first public mobile phone was built on 3rd April 1973 by Martin Cooper.
- Microsoft was initially named Micro-Soft and they remover the dash in 1976 and their revenue in the first year is only $15,000.
- Alexa always listening to you, it stores your conversations to its cloud to improve your overall product experience.
- Samsung is 38 years and 1 month older than Apple.
- There are more than one million domain names that are registered online per month.
- Although GPS is free for the world to use, it costs $2 million per day to operate. The money comes from the American tax revenue.
- The first-ever VCR (Video Camera Recorder) was the size of a piano.
- Smoking will void your Apple warranty means if you are smoking while using Apple computers, they will void your warranty because Apple had a smoking ban on their computers.
- Over 6,000 new viruses are created and released every month.
- NASA’s internet speed is 91 GB per second.
- Millions of hours of movies and TV are watched every day on Netflix.
- Amazon, originally was a printed book seller company, now it sells more e-books than printed books.
- Tim Berners-Lee coined the phrase “World Wide Web” in 1990.
- The first two video games copyrighted in the U.S. were Asteroids and Lunar Lander in 1980.
Source:- Google, Bing, Quora And My Research
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