70 interesting facts about IT technologies that you might not know about

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70 interesting facts about IT technologies

one. The small panda (red panda) lives in the Himalayas (southwestern China). In English, it is called “Firefox”. This word inspired the creators of the popular browser … but for some reason they put a red fox on the logo, and not a panda.

2. The very first Apple logo featured Sir Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree. An apple hangs over him, about to fall.

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3. In 2009 Google Corporation rented California Grazing has… goats! What for? They are very effective in controlling weeds in the lawn around the headquarters of the “corporation of good” lawn.

4. Microsoft founder Bill Gates is a dropout student who dropped out of Harvard. That, however, did not prevent him from creating the world’s most popular operating system for computers and one of the richest IT companies on Earth.

5. … But Gates’ house was designed with a Macintosh computer.

6. The word “robot” comes from the Czech “robota” (“work”).

7. Compact discs (CDs) are read from the inner circle to the outer circle, and are written exactly the opposite way.

eight. You cannot cancel a transaction with Bitcoin. On the other hand, no one can force you to pay either.

nine. The average computer user blinks 7 times per minute. The normal rate is 12 times per minute.

ten. The world’s first tape recorder was created in 1956 and was comparable in size to a piano.

eleven. The fingers of a typist run an average of 20 km per day.

12. The world’s first alarm clock could only ring at 4 o’clock in the morning.

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thirteen. November 30 of each year is World Computer Security Day.

fourteen. On April 1, 2005, NASA told the world that it had found water on the surface of Mars. The trolling was successful.

fifteen. It took radio 38 years to reach a market audience of 50 million listeners, TV 13 years, iPod 3 years.

sixteen. A picture taken by the very first camera in the world would have to wait 8 hours.

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17. The creators of the PNG photo format wanted it to be called “ping”.

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eighteen. Skype is officially blocked in China.

nineteen. The Apple II computer received a 5 MB hard drive.

20. Text on the screen is read 10% slower than on paper.

21. The name of the popular Linux distribution Ubuntu is taken from one of the African languages. It means “I am because of you”.

22. In 1932, University of Washington professor August Dvorak created the keyboard of the same name. The Dvorak keyboard is more convenient than the traditional QWERTY – it does not tire your hands so much and type faster. But it never became the standard. However, if desired, it can be included in any modern OS.

23. The QWERTY keyboard was invented by Christopher Scholes in 1868.

24. The computer mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1964.

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25. The first commercial computer with a graphical user interface and a mouse was the Apple Lisa (June 1983).

26. The first computer (calculating machine) was created by Charles Babbage in 1822.

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27. 1024 gigabytes equals 1 terabyte, 1024 terabytes equals 1 petabyte.

28. 1 petabyte can hold 13.3 years of HDTV video.

29. According to statistics, 86% of people try to insert the USB cable upside down.

thirty. The last game for the Sega Mega Drive was released in 2010. It proved so popular that it was sold out before the release.

31. Since 2008, video games have been bought more than DVDs.

32. The average age of a gamer in the US is 35 years old.

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33. In 2010, the US Air Force used 1,760 PlayStation 3s to build a supercomputer. Why not computers? The military said the PS3 is a more economical and environmentally friendly option.

34. The first real-time online gaming console was the Sega Dreamcast.

35. Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37% fewer mistakes.

36. Nintendo (the creator of Pokemon Go) was founded in 1889 and produced only playing cards for many decades.

37. E-mail appeared before the Internet.

38. In 2004, the @ symbol was added to Morse code. Before that, nothing had been added to it for several decades.

39. The very first Internet domain (site name) was called www.symbolics.com and was registered on March 15, 1985.

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40. According to the Message Anti-Abuse Working Group, between 88 and 92% of all emails sent in the first half of 2010 are spam. Today, the presence of spam in online correspondence has grown to 97%.

41. The first person in the world to be arrested for spreading spam was Anthony Greco in 2005.

42. The first Internet browser was called Netscape Navigator. It was released in 1994, and at the peak of its popularity, up to 90% of Internet traffic of those years passed through it.

43. All letter combinations from aaa.com to zzz.com are already registered.

44. Every second, $680 worth of transactions take place on eBay.com.

45. Spammers only receive one response for every 12 million emails sent.

46. The domain www.YouTube.com was registered on February 14, 2005.

47. Amazon sells more e-books than it has paper books in its catalog.

48. The first name of Amazon is Cadabra.com. The founder of the service, Jeff Bezos, changed the name after he noticed that his lawyers often confuse the words cadabra and cadaver (corpse).

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49. CompuServe was the very first ISP in the world.

fifty. The name of the once popular Internet service Yahoo (working since September 14, 1995) is consonant with the characters in the book “Gulliver’s Travels” by writer Jonathan Swift. In it, “yahu” or “yehu” were hideous humanoids that inhabited the land of the virtuous Houyhnhnm horses. In the image of Yahoo, Swift, who did not like people in general, reflected all human vices.

51. The first advertising banner appeared in 1994.

52. In 1984, 1,000 devices were connected to the Internet, in 1992 – 1 million, in 2008 – 1 billion.

53. In 1999, PayPal was named one of the ten worst business ideas of the year.

54. 97% of people type words into Google just to see if they spell them correctly.

55. Google processes 35 billion search queries every month.

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56. Only 4% of Arab women use the Internet.

57. “Phantom Vibration Syndrome” is a new disease that has emerged in the era of smartphones. This is when it seems to you that the phone is vibrating, but in fact nothing is happening.

58. The headphones have magnets.

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59. The first ever cell phone call was made by Motorola employee Martin Cooper in 1973. He called from one of the New York streets.

60. Popular in Russia, Nokia was founded in 1865 and for a long time was engaged in the production of paper (later rubber products).

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61. The first Nokia mobile phones appeared in the 1980s. last century.

62. The first commercial SMS message was sent in 1992.

63. Every second inhabitant of our planet has never called a mobile phone in his life.

64. Mobile phone number 666-6666 sold at auction for $2.7 million.

65. Initially, Apple wanted to release the first iPhone with an apple-shaped body.

66. Facebook got a blue interface because its creator Mark Zuckerberg can’t distinguish between red and green.

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67. Approximately 20% of all YouTube videos are related to music in one way or another.

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68. If you find a bug in Facebook’s security system, you will be paid $500.

69. Members of one in eight families in the United States met online.

70. Google’s first tweet on Twitter was posted in February 2009. It says: I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 0110001, which means lucky10. (“I’m feeling lucky”).

71. Domain name registration was free until 1995.

72. In 1956, 5 megabytes (5 MB) of data weighed a ton.

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