Interesting Technology Facts: -

• Ø   Japan has the fastest Internet speed of 319 terabits per second.

  Ø   Facebook was originally a directory of freshmen with their names and pictures.

  Ø   Nokia’s first product is toilet paper.

  Ø   The ‘fox’ in the Mozilla Firefox logo is a red panda.

  Ø   The founders of Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and SpaceX have one thing in common—they are all dropouts!

  Ø   Combining all the bitcoin mining operations worldwide is equivalent to the computing power of 3.7 million supercomputers.

  Ø   Aeromobil has introduced the world’s first commercial flying car.

  Ø   General Motors made the first self-driving car model.

  Ø   Amazon’s Alexa listens to your conversations.

  Ø   Google receives more than 99,000 searches every second.

  Ø   According to statistics, Americans spend two hours and 54 minutes using their mobile phones per day.

  Ø   Nuclear energy is a zero-emission energy source.Your Apple product’s warranty may be void if you smoke near it.

  Ø   King’s Field is the world’s first PlayStation game.

  Ø   The word “robot” originated from a Czech word that means “forced labor.”

  Ø   Since 2016, Pokemon Go, a type of augmented reality, has become a game fad.

  Ø   You cannot access the Deep Web using Google.

  Ø   An average person can blink seven times every minute when using a computer.

  Ø   The intense fear or dislike of new technology is called technophobia.

  Ø   The corporate giant Samsung is a leading contributor to landfill waste in 2022.

  Ø   India tops the list of Facebook users, having 329.65 million people active on Facebook.

  Ø   The most common computer password is “123456.”

  Ø   Apple’s OS is more difficult to crack than Android system.

  Ø   The Firefox logo isn't a fox

  Ø   As of 2017, 2.1 millions people still use dial up.

  Ø   There are approx. 6.0 billion Google Searches per day.

  Ø   Google's First Tweet was in binary.it reads, “I’m feeling lucky”.

  Ø   Motorola produced the first handheld mobile phone and their first phone call  was to their rival.

  Ø   Google rents out goats to replace lawnmowers.

  Ø   The first photo took 8 hours to expose.

  Ø  1 out of 12 million spam emails receive a reply.

  Ø  A woman once accidentally cut off two countries from the internet.

  Ø  You are always living in the past. Everything you’re experiencing right now actually happened 80 milliseconds ago.

  Ø  Mark Zuckerberg is red-green colourblind.

  Ø  The first YouTube video was in 2005.

  Ø  Twitter, Wikipedia, and AOL IM all crashed at 3:15pm when Michael Jackson died.

  Ø  Samsung started off as a grocery store.

  Ø  Spam Mail was named after the canned meat, SPAM meat.

  Ø  YouTube was created to be a dating site.

  Ø  The first text message was sent in 1992.

  Ø  The first-ever VCR was the size of a piano.

  Ø  Samsung is 38 years and 1 month older than Apple.

  Ø  A Petabyte is a lot of data.

  Ø  Domain name registration used to be free.till 1995

  Ø  The Radio took 38 years to reach an audience of 50 million.

  Ø  Meanwhile, the iPod only took 3 years to reach the same milestone!.

  Ø   The first digital photo was taken in 1975.

  Ø  Alexa is always listening to your conversations.

  Ø  The first product scanned was a packet of chewing gum in 1974.

  Ø  The technology of nuclear power plants is commonly used for steam turbines.

  Ø  Nuclear bombs are one of the most advanced technological weapons of mass destruction.

  Ø  Artificial intelligence is the future.

  Ø  Ancient Greece used rail transport as early as the 6th century BC.

  Ø  For over 500 years, the technology of the train system continues to get better.

  Ø  Car manufacturers are eyeing for fully autonomous vehicles.

  Ø  Peugeot Citroën successfully created a self-driving car.

  Ø  Google is using self-driving cars in Silicon Valley.

  Ø  The first blog post was in 1995.

  Ø  SpaceX, Boeing, and Virgin Galactic are pioneering aerospace tourism.

  Ø  You’re in good hands if your surgeon was a gamer.

  Ø  iTunes has an unusual Terms & Conditions.When agree to the Terms & Conditions for iTunes, you are agreeing to not use it to make nuclear weapons.

  Ø  When Snapchat first launched in 2011, it was named Picaboo.

  Ø  It wasn’t renamed to what we know as Snapchat until 2012.

  Ø  Everyone uses Google as a spellcheck.

  Ø  Google searches hit the billions every month.

  Ø  The first email was sent in 1971.

  Ø  The 10th Scandinavian King Harald I is what the Bluetooth is named after.

  Ø  Hewlett Packard  also known as (HP) was started in a garage in Palo Alto, California in 1939. Google, Apple and Microsoft were all started in garages as well.

  Ø  IBM created the first hard drive in 1956 called IBM Model 350 Disk File.

  Ø  E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web. 

  Ø  The first public cell phone call was made by Martin Cooper on April 3, 1973.

  Ø  Launched on April 11, 1984, the first cell phone sold in the US was the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X and it weighed 2 pounds.

  Ø  The first website was created in 1991.

  Ø  The first palmtop computer was released in 1989 and it was the Atari Portfolio. 

  Ø  There’s a name for when you feel your phone vibrate…but it doesn’t.“ -Phantom Vibration Syndrome”

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