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90 Interesting Facts About Technology That You Didn't Know

# The word "technology" combines a Greek word for "art, craft" (techne) and the word for "word, speech" (logos).

# The term "Android" literally means a human with a male robot appearance. "Gynoid" is the female equivalent of this term.

# In the 1950s, PCs went by the name "Electronic Brains."

# 97 percent of people type in words to Google just to see if they spelled it correctly.

# Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, the founders of Apple, founded Apple Computer Inc. on 1 April 1976.

# The first commercial computer with a Graphical User Interface (GUI) and a mouse was the Apple Lisa.

# Samsung was founded on 1 March 1938 by Lee Byung-Chull as a grocery store.

# The original URL for Yahoo was akebono.standford.edu.

# Doug Engelbart invented the first-ever computer mouse made from wood in 1964.

# Nintendo (founded in 1889) was a playing card company from 1889 to 1956, and has even a bridge tournament called the "Nintendo Cup."

# In 1973, Martin Cooper, a Motorola former employee, made the first-ever cell phone call from New York City.

# HP, Microsoft, and Apple have one thing in common-they all started in a garage.

# Every minute, more than 570 new websites are created.

# The name Google was created accidentally. The original founders made a spelling mistake, under the impression that they were going for Googol.

# Snapchat was named Picaboo when it was first launched in 2011.

# There are more than 3.5 billion searches on Google every day.

# There are more than 35 billion searches on Google every month.

# Every minute 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube.

# A comedy band was the first photo ever uploaded to the internet. The group, called "Les Horribles Cernettes," were colleagues with the inventor of World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee.

# Video will account for around 80 percent of all internet traffic by 2020.

# The name Yahoo was chosen because it derived from the slang of Gulliver's Travels, "Yahoo" which was a fictional race of beings in the novel.

# An American e-commerce and cloud computing company Amazon.com was earlier known as Cadara.com.

# 340,000 tweets are sent per minute.

# The fact that the keyboard has QWERTY types of button: It had buttons in alphabetical order when the keyboard was invented, resulting in the typing speed was too fast and the computer used to hang. So, the qwerty keyboard was invented to reduce a person's speed.

# 250 million hours of TV shows and movies are watched daily on Netflix.

# Every iPhone advertising has 9:41 set as the time. This is because the iPhone was first announced in 2007 by Steve Jobs at the time.

# Every day, there are more than 300 million photos uploaded to Facebook, 800 million likes per day, and 175 million love reactions per day.

# In May 2019, "Yahoo" was the top three most Googled words with 233 million searches, "youtube" with 194 million searches and "amazon" with 103 million searches.

# Candy Crush earns over $1.74 million a day, and more than $636 million a year.

# The first term to ever get auto-corrected was "teh." You had to click the left arrow and F3 to auto-correct "teh" to "the."

# The fear of technology is known as Technophobia.

# Six months before the iPhone was expected to enter the market, the first iPhone presentation happened. The phone was too buggy to use at the time so Steve Jobs always had to switch phones behind his desk. Otherwise, it would run out of RAM and crash.

# Laws on robots are being implemented. The European Union is suggesting laws that implement an emergency kill switch into all robots.

# In 1956 the first VCR (Video Camera Recorder) was made, it was the size of a piano.

# Children who have spent 1 hour a day on social media have less chance of being happy.

# The first camera required an incredibly lengthy exposure. The first photograph taken in 1826 had taken eight hours to expose.

# In 1993, a Soviet cosmonaut on the TM-17 space flight carried his Nintendo Game Boy into space. It is said to have orbited Earth three thousand times and was later auctioned for $1,220.

# The first mechanical alarm clock which Levi Hutchins invented in 1787 could ring only at 4 a.m.

# The speed of the NASA internet is 91 GB per second.

# It took the Radio 38 years to reach 50 million audiences. Meanwhile, it took the iPod just 3 years to hit the same milestone.

# In 2004 the @ symbol became the first new character in several decades to be added to Morse code for the first time.

# E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web. This first estimated system of this type was called MAILBOX which was first used in 1965 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

# The barcode was invented by Norman Joseph Woodland and patented in October 1952.

# The logo on Firefox is not a fox. The cute furry creature in the logo is, surprisingly, actually a red panda.

# In 1974, a packet of chewing gum was the first product scanned using a barcode.

# A new word, "The Silver Surfer" was created for those seniors +50 who regularly use the internet.

# There is no similarity between the word emoji and the word emotion, emoji comes from the Japanese words e for "picture" and moji for "character."

# YouTube accounts for 5 percent of music content.

# In 1986, Apple launched a clothing line. Others have described it as a "train wreck."

# We only keep 1 of every 10 apps that we try. It is estimated that in the long run about 80-90 percent of the applications we install will be deleted.

# Twitter, Wikipedia, and AOL IM all crashed at 3:15pm on the day Michael Jackson died.

# A 21-year-old spent 5000 hours playing video games.

# Facebook is the best friend of a divorce lawyer. In reality, 1 in 7 divorces is blamed on Facebook.

# Someone tried to sell New Zealand on eBay in 2006. The price had hit $3,000 before eBay shut it down.

# You can save ink on the printer by using a thinner font.

# The first Apple logo is not what you would think.it featured sir Issac Newton sitting under a tree, with an apple on his head about to fall.

# Tech companies test their products often in New Zealand. New Zealand is such a diverse country with English speaking residents, that's a perfect place to test. But the main reason for this is that because it is very isolated, news of a product failure does not spread very fast.

# Thirty million viewers watch TV programs from their smartphones.

# The fear of computers is known as "Cyberphobia."

# 86 percent of people attempt to plug upside down their USB devices.

# The first-ever tweet from Google on Twitter was nonsense. It reads, “I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010”. It is translated from binary to English and this tweet says "I'm feeling lucky."

# We spend around 10 years watching TV.

# Domain registration was free until 14th September 1995.

# China is home to fake Apple stores. Some of Apple's fake stores are so convincing that even Apple's employees thought they worked. They usually sell real Apple goods, and even the workers wear the same shirts that the actual Apple associates wear.

# Even though it's free to use GPS worldwide, operating on a regular basis costs $2 million. That money comes from tax revenue from the Americans.

# The U.S. Air Force used 1,760 PlayStation 3 consoles in 2010, to build a Department of Defense supercomputer.

# Surgeons who have grown up playing video games more than 3 hours a week make 37 percent fewer errors.

# On eBay, transactions worth an average of $680 is made every second.

# Bluetooth was named after King Harald Bluetooth.

# Google rents out goats. Google rents goats to eat the grass at its Mountain View headquarters, instead of mowing their lawn.

# In 2012, there were at least six girls named Apple, 49 boys named Mac, and at least 17 girls named Siri.

# People read from a screen are 10 percent slower than from paper.

# Around 51 percent of the traffic on the internet is non-human. The hacking programs, spammers, and phishing account for over 30 percent of traffic.

# The word "Robot" derives from the Czech word "robota" that translates into labor or forced labor.

# Back in 2013, an Amazon warehouse had just 1,000 robots working. They had 45,000 robots in 20 warehouses in 2017.

# The first Xbox featured edited sound bites from real Apollo mission transmissions. If you leave the Xbox on your home screen, you will soon hear conversational sounds – real dialogue from the Apollo mission.

# Each year millions of tons of technology are thrown out. In the United States. alone, 220 million tons of old computers are thrown away every year, along with other devices.

# The first 128-bit console to enter the market was the Sega Dreamcast. In 1999, it was the first console that allows online play in real-time.

# Only 21 million Bitcoins are mineable in total.

# Computer Security Day is celebrated on November 30th.

# When you agree to the iTunes Terms & Conditions, you agree not to use it to make nuclear weapons.

# In 1999, PayPal had been voted the top ten worst business ideas for its original business model. They are a US$ 9.24 billion business as of 2015.

# Apple has a "smoking" ban on its computers, meaning the warranty becomes void if you smoke while using any Apple computer.

# Currently, the largest hard drive in the world is a 60 TB SSD.

# Ringxiety is a condition in which a person thinks his or her phone is ringing or vibrating. This is often referred to as Phantom Vibration Syndrome. It also sometimes goes by the term Phantom Ringing.

# Forty percent of American couples meet up online. These days online dating is hugely popular and it seems to work.

# China has banned YouTube, Facebook, Gmail, Twitter, Instagram, Skype, and Dropbox from public use.

# Digital technology is expected to be able to reduce global carbon emissions by 20 percent by 2030.

# The man regarded as the Father of Information Theory, Claude Shannon, invented the digital circuit during his master's degree program, when he was only 21 years old, the foundation of the magic that allows us all access to the Internet today.

# TIME Magazine named the computer the "Man of the Year" in 1982.

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