101 technological facts that will surprise you!

Do you consider yourself a technology expert?

Prepare to be amazed — because these incredible facts will show you the strangest, funniest, and most unknown sides of the digital world. From Firefox’s red panda to Google’s 200 goats, technology hides stories you wouldn’t believe unless you read them yourself!

1. The Firefox browser logo isn’t actually a fox, it’s a red panda.
2. Google rents goats to eat and cut grass at their headquarters, the total number of goats exceeds 200.
3. The word robot was first spoken in 1920 from the Czech language and translates as common worker or forced labor.
4. The video camera was first built in 1956 and was the size of a piano.
5. Samsung is 38 years and 1 month older than its competitor Apple. Samsung was founded in 1938, while Apple was founded in 1976.
6. One petabyte is equal to 1024 terabytes, to give you an example of how much 1 petabyte can hold up to 13 years of HD video recording.
7. Domain name registration was free and could be used by anyone, until 1995, when the prospect of an internet name was seen and payments began at $100 for 2 years.
8. It took radio broadcasting a full 38 years to reach 50 million listeners.
9. It took the iPod only 3 years to have 50 million users (the difference between the Radio and the iPod).
10. The Nintendo Game Boy was the first electronic game to go into space in 1993.
11. GPS services, although in most cases free for daily use, cost a full $2 million globally to maintain.
12. The first computer mouse was made of wood in 1964.
13. The first X-box used sounds and noises recorded from a real spaceship.
14. 86% of users plug devices into the wrong USB port.
15. The introduction of the first iPhone took place 6 months before it was released for sale, as the iPhone was not yet ready for the market. During the first presentation, Steve Jobs changed the iPhone behind the scenes because a single phone would be blocked by numerous “bugs” and small RAM.
16. International Cybersecurity Day is celebrated on November 30th.
17. In 2010, the U.S. Department of Defense used 1,760 PlayStation 3s to create a supercomputer simulator.
18. The first online games were launched in 1999 by the Sega Dreamcast, it was the first console to allow group play via the internet.
19. iTunes has a strange term in its terms and policies that you must accept, specifically Apple warns you that you will not use iTunes to develop nuclear or chemical weapons… Don’t believe it? Read it for yourself!
20. Nintendo did not start as a video game manufacturing company; Nintendo in Japan from 1889 to 1956 produced playing cards.
21. The astronauts of the first Apollo 11 mission failed to sign a life insurance policy because the risk was too high and no insurance company agreed to sign a contract to cover the astronauts’ expenses and families in case something went wrong (according to the insurance companies, the chances of things going wrong were too high).
22. Dial-up service is still used today, with up to 2.1 million users in 2018. It was most widely used in rural areas of the United States.
23. 97% of Google users use it to check if the word they are typing is spelled correctly, so through Google’s suggested word, users make sure they are typing the word correctly.
24. Alexa and Siri (virtual assistants) “listen” to you all the time to personalize and adapt to the tone of your voice.
25. Android actually has a gender and means a male robot, the equivalent word for female is Gynoid which translates to female robot.
26. Google performs 35 billion searches per month. The most searched words are: “facebook”, “youtube” and “amazon”.
27. Apple excludes products from warranty if you smoke while using an Apple product, this would void the warranty.
28. The first mobile phone call occurred in 1973 by Martin Cooper, a Motorola employee, on the streets of New York City.
29. The first commercial text message was sent on December 31, 1992; today more than 6 billion text messages are sent per day.
30. Over 6,000 viruses are created and sent every month.
31. Every day, more than 300 million photos and 800 million likes are posted on Facebook.
32. The iPhone concept was thought to come in the shape of an apple, of course this idea was later rejected.
33. The comic sans font is the most hated font globally.
34. The internet speed of the NASA institution is 91 GB per second.
35. Nokia is the largest Finnish company by any other industry.
36. Of the 7.7 billion people in the world, more than 6 billion have access to a telephone. Meanwhile, only 4.5 billion of these have access to a functioning toilet.
37. The first computer with a graphical interface was the Apple Lisa, which was designed to have a minimalist graphical interface compared to any other computer that was still text-based. Lisa was also the name of Steve Jobs’ daughter.
38. The most expensive cell phone number sold was in Qatar in 2006 for $2.75 million.
39. Mark Zuckerberg is color blind, meaning he cannot distinguish colors.
40. 40% of American couples “meet” for the first time online.
41. Finding an error in Facebook’s coding is rewarded by the company with $500.
42. Children who spend more than 1 hour a day on social media are more likely to be unhappy.
43. The website myspace.com lost all of its content in 2006 when it attempted to move the information to new servers.
44. Over 33% of global divorces are a result of Facebook, some reasons being messages exchanged with other people or secret accounts from the partner.
45. The QWWRTY keyboard was originally developed to slow down typing since it was originally for typewriters and typing quickly on a typewriter resulted in key lockup.
46. The first website was built in 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee and is still online and active, try it at info.cern.ch.
47. Some countries used mobile devices before landline telephony, some countries are Nigeria, Ghana, Bangladesh.
48. The nuclear missile launch code at the White House for 20 years was eight 0s in a row, despite the Air Force denying this.
49. 90% of the world’s currencies are digital, most of the world no longer uses physical currencies.
50. Netflix users watch 164 million hours of movies, series, or documentaries every day.
51. A technology degree is actually outdated because what you learned in the first and second years has gone out of fashion.
52. New Zealand is the country where technology companies prefer to test their products, it is a country where it is quite well isolated and “spying” of products by journalists or paparazzi is not very widespread.
53. China has fake Apple stores that are so identical and sell Apple products that even the employees can’t tell they’re working in such a store.
54. The first photo online was of a four-member female band, published in 1992.
55. Every iPhone in the ad shows the time 9:41 a.m., which was the time Steve Jobs began the first iPhone presentation.
56. A 21-year-old has spent an average of 5,000 hours playing video games, has also sent more than 250,000 emails or spent 10,000 hours on a smartphone at this age.
57. The largest successful companies have started precisely in a private garage, such as companies such as: HP, Google, Apple and Microsoft.
58. The largest amount of internet traffic generated is not from human use, but over 51% is from programs that attempt to hack online accounts or websites.
59. The most commonly used and weakest passwords are: 123456, password, 12345 or abcde.
60. When the first iPhone was introduced in 2007, there was no App Store; Apple’s online store was introduced in 2008.
61. Over 90% of people use and keep installed only 1 out of 10 apps they try.
62. Technology has managed to produce self-learning devices that can predict strokes before heart attacks successfully in up to 90% of cases.
63. Amazon’s main warehouse currently employs 45,000 robots, up from just 1,000 in 2013.
64. The average Facebook user has 200 virtual friends.
65. Google consumes electricity equivalent to 200,000 private homes.
66. The first computer virus was created in 1971 and was harmless.
67. The digital currency bitcoin can have a value of no more than 21 million, so the total value of these digital currencies cannot exceed this value in dollars.
68. Young people in the Philippines use social media more than in the U.S. Filipinos use SM at a rate of 93% while in the U.S. only 74%.
69. China is the country of online shopping, 70% of total online purchases occur from a smartphone, while in the US only 46%.
70. Over 220 million tons of technological devices are discarded each year in the U.S., the devices end up in various landfills where some are recycled.
71. The first satellite was sent into space in 1978, while by 1995 there were more than 24 of them.
72. Emojis were first used in 1982 by a computer scientist who managed to create a happy and sad face using columns and brackets.
73. The largest online game is “World of Warcraft” with a total of more than 10 million active players.
74. The IBM Simon was the first touchscreen mobile phone and smartphone (in today’s terms) to be produced in 1992.
75. The first TCP/IP communication protocol was developed by the US Department of Defense.
76. Theodore George Paraskevakos registered the first patent for a smartphone in 1974.
77. More than 570 new websites are created every minute in the world.
78. 000 tweets are shared globally every minute on the Twitter platform.
79. Top 10 jobs today didn’t even exist 10 years ago (e.g. ios developer, digital marketing, cloud specialist, social media manager, uber driver, big data architect)
80. The game Candy Crush generates $1.74 million per day and more than $636 million per year.
81. Over 10 million remote-controlled cars will be on the roads globally.
82. 47% of today’s jobs will disappear completely in 25 years and robots will replace 5 million staff by 2020.
83. In 1956, 5 MB of information weighed a ton. That was the weight of the device produced by IBM that year.
84. In 1936, a computer was produced in Russia that worked 100% underwater.
85. On average, typing on a keyboard (left-right movements) covers a distance of 20km.
86. Over 1 million new domain names are registered every month.
87. This year, there will be a total of more than 31 billion devices connected to the internet.
88. WhatsApp users are at the level of 1.5 billion and over 60 billion messages exchanged. Meanwhile, WhatsApp has invested $ 19 billion in this application.
89. Over 90% of messages sent are read within 3 minutes.
90. On average, the eyelids blink 20 times per minute, but when the eyes are facing the screen, they decrease to 7 blinks per minute.
91. The richest person in the world earns $1,084 per second.
92. E-mail existed before the internet.
93. Bill Gates’ house was designed by a Mac computer.
94. 30% of IT people hide this profession from relatives and friends so as not to give free technical advice.
95. The largest memory on a single hard drive today is 60TB with SSD technology.
96. The first computer was 2.5 m long and weighed 30,000 kg.
97. The name Google was accidentally created by a keyboard mix-up after the original intended name was googol.
98. Revista prestigjioze TIME , emëroj një kompjuter si “Burri i vitit” në 1982.
99. Every minute, more than 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube.
100. Google uses 1,000 computers in 0.2 seconds to display search results.
101. Albascan’s favorite products are Apple products. 😍