Technology Facts

Here are 30 Tech Bytes:

1. The Firefox logo isn't a fox - It's actually a red panda!
2. Nintendo made playing cards - Long before video games. Founded in 1889 as a playing card company.
3. There are approx. 3.5 billion Google Searches per day - 7.2% from people searching 'Google'.
4. Google's First Tweet was in binary - Translated: "I'm feeling lucky".
5. Motorola produced the first handheld mobile phone - In 1973.
6. Apple was designing an apple shaped flip phone - Before the iPhone.
7. Nokia used to sell toilet paper - Before mobile phones!
8. More people have mobile phones than toilets - 6 billion vs 4.5 billion.
9. Over 90% of world's currency is digital - Only 8% is physical money.
10. Every iPhone ad has time set to 9:41 - When Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone.
11. The QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow you down - To prevent typewriter jams.
12. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute - Instead of the usual 20.
13. The first TV broadcast was in 1925 - Greyscale image, 30-line format.
14. The name Google was created accidentally - Originally 'Googol' was intended.
15. Over 500 hours of YouTube uploaded every minute - As of 2019.
16. Google rents out goats - To mow grass at their campus.
17. 1 out of 12 million spam emails receives a reply - Yet 14 billion sent daily.
18. A woman cut off two countries from internet - Scavenging copper, she sliced a cable.
19. You are always living in the past - Consciousness lags 80 milliseconds behind events.
20. Mark Zuckerberg is red-green colorblind - That's why Facebook is blue!
21. Facebook will pay $500 for bug reports - Their Bug Bounty program.
22. Twitter, Wikipedia, Google crashed when Michael Jackson died - At 3:15pm.
23. Samsung started as a grocery store - In March 1938.
24. Spam Mail was named after SPAM meat - The canned meat.