1.
PCs went by the name “Electronic Brains” in the 1950s.
2.
Email has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
3.
HP, Google, Microsoft and Apple have just one thing in common,
other than the fact
that they are IT
companies. They were all started in garages.
4.
Bill Gates’ house was designed used a Mac computer.
5.
There are approximately 6000 new viruses released every month.
6.
Computer programming is currently one of the fastest growing
occupations related
to technology.
7.
28% of IT professionals hide their career from friends and
family to get out of giving
free tech support.
8.
The 30th of November is known as
“Computer Security Day”.
9.
Techno phobia is the fear of
technology, Homophobia is the fear of being without a
Mobile phone, Cyber
phobia is the fear of computers.
10.
The original name of Windows was Interface Manager.
12.
The QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow you down. If you want
to type faster,
try the Dvorak
Keyboard.
13.
Currently, the world’s largest hard drive is a 60TB SSD.
14.
The Apple II had a hard drive of only 5 megabytes when it was
released.
15.
51% of internet traffic is “non-human”. 31% is made up from
hacking programs,
Spammers and malicious
phishing.
16.
The first computer was almost 2.5 meters high and weighed nearly
30,000kg.
17.
The name Google was created accidentally. A spelling error was
made by the
original founders who were
under the impression they were going for Googol.
18.
The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than
half the normal rate of
20.
19.
The first computer mouse was invented by Doug
Engelbart and it was carved from
wood.
20.
TIME Magazine named the computer the “Man of the Year” in 1982.
21.
The first alarm clock was designed for one person and could only
go off at 4 am – when they had to get up and get ready for
work. An adjustable alarm clock was not created for another
60 years.
22.
The only state that can be typed on the same line of a QWERTY
keyboard
Is Alaska. You just checked didn’t
you?
23.
In 1999, PayPal, with its original business model, was voted top
ten
worst business ideas. As of 2015,
they are a $9.24 billion dollar business.
24.
80% of YouTube’s videos are viewed from outside the United States.
25.
The 2015 most popular mobile app was Face book.
26.
People who are using a computer blink 66% less than those who
aren’t.
today 31 years and
275 million domain names later.
28.
China has banned YouTube, Face book, Gmail, Twitter, Instagram, Drop
box
and Skype from public use.
29.
The computers used in the Apollo 11 trip to the moon had less
processing
Power than a modern day cell phone.
30.
Only 45.8% of China’s population uses the internet, yet a 2016
statistic shows
that China has more people
using the internet that any other country.
31.
Remember in the 1990 film Total Recall when Arnold Schwarzenegger
climbed into the robotaxi
(Johnny cab)? Well, if you travel to the United Arab
Emirates, you can now ride in
a robotaxi, too. Run entirely on electricity, this
autonomous taxi is no longer a
thing of the future.
32.
An ecofriendly car that can act as a backup power generator for
your house in
the event of a blackout? That’s
the futuristic Toyota FCV.
33.
Around the year 1500, Leonardo da Vinci sketched plans for a
robot.
34. RadioShack was one of
the first companies to start the personal computer revolution,
back in 1970,
with its TRS-80.
designed by Rudy Krolopp in April of 1984. It weighed two pounds.
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