21 Interesting Facts About Technology
Technology and specifically the internet has been around for quite some time and today I thought of writing about a couple of interesting facts about technology.
Go through it and let me know what you think about the 21 interesting facts about technology/tech facts that are listed below.
21 Interesting Facts About Technology #1
Email has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
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Ray Tomlinson, a scientist from Cambrige, introduced electronic mail in 1972. He used the @ to distinguish between the sender’s name and network name in the e-mail address.
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Bill Gates house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
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Inside an original Macintosh case, you will find 47 signatures of each member of Apple’s Macintosh division as of 1982.
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The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in 1964 and it was made of wood.
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A typists fingers travel roughly 12.6 miles on an average work day.
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On eBay, there’s an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.
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Domain names are registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.
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Domain registration was free until an announcement by the National Science Foundation on 14th September, 1995, which changed it.
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One of the other interesting facts about technology is that HP, Google, Microsoft and Apple were all started in garages (Hewlett Packard was started in a garage located in Palo Alto in 1939).
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Banner advertising was first used in 1994.
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Facebook pays a minimum of $500 if you can find a way to hack the site.
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Google got its name from the mathematical figure googol, which denotes the number ‘one followed by a hundred zeros’.
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Yahoo! derived its name from the word Yahoo coined by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels. A Yahoo is a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human!
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Researchers consider that the first search engine was Archie, created in 1990 by Alan Emtage; a student at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
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The morning after Internet Explorer 4 was released, certain mischievous Microsoft workers left a 10 by 12 foot letter ‘e’ and a balloon with the message, “We love you”, on Netscape front lawn.
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The first Internet worm was created by Robert T.Morris, Jr, and it attacked more than 6000 Internet hosts.
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The first computer company to register for a domain name was Digital Equipment Corporation.
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Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) was designed in 1973.
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The Apple iTunes music store was introduced in the spring of 2003.
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Whereas it took 13 years for television to reach 50 million users, it took the Internet less than 4 years.
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So there you have it, 21 interesting facts about technology.
Lemme know what you think of the above interesting facts about technology 🙂