Here are some interesting Technology facts.

Technology Facts :

 

1. Google, a popular search engine, was initially called BackRub but the name was changed to a play on the large number named googol which is 1 followed by 100 zeros or written another way 1.0 × 10^100
2. Every citizen of Finland has the right to an internet connection
3. The 1st harddrive was made by IBM in 1956 and was called IBM Model 350 Disk File. The first-generation storage unit was huge, with a cabinet the size of a cupboard that held 50 24-inch disks and held an impressive 5MB of data.
4. The Atari Portfolio was released in 1989 and was the world’s first palmtop computer. Two years later it appeared in the film Terminator 2, where it was used by John Connor to hack an ATM and retrieve the key to the vault in the Cyberdyne lab.
5. Many think the first mouse was invented in 1970 at Xerox PARC. However, the first mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1963. It was a wooden shell with two metal wheels.
6. Claude Shannon, the “Father of information theory”, invented the digital circuit when he was only 21, during his master’s degree.
7. How powerful were the computers that took us to the moon? Turns out that the Apolo 11 computers had less processing power than a modern cellphone!
8. Early electronic computers, developed around the 1940’s, were the size of a large room and consumed huge amounts of electricity. They were vastly different to the modern computers we use today, especially when compared to small and portable laptop computers.
9. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.
10. Email has been around longer than the world wide web.
11. Bill Gates house was designed using a Mac computer.
12. Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QUERTY keyboard
13. HP, Google, Microsoft and Apple hav eon thing in common apart from the obvious that they are IT companies.They were all started in garages.
14. There's an 2,000 year-old analog computer called the Antikythera mechanism!
15. Hackers in 1999 discovered a flaw that allowed logging into any Hotmail account with the password 'eh.'
16. 28% of IT professionals hide their career from friends and family to get out of giving free tech support!
17. Google Maps helped a kidnapped boy find his home 23 years later!
18. The inventor of Ethernet said the Internet would die in 1996 or he'd eat his words. He literally did!
19. The Department of Defense used 1760 Playstation 3s to build a supercomputer because it was the cheapest option!
20. It was once considered a letter in the English language. The Chinese call it a little mouse, Danes and Swedes call it 'elephant's trunk', Germans a spider monkey, and Italians a snail. Israelis pronounce it 'strudels' and the Czechs say 'rollmops's...What is it? The @ sign.

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