- Facebook took 2 years to gain 50 million users worldwide
- Google+ was developed under the code name of ‘Emerald Sea’
- Using your phone while it is on charge can damage the battery
- The word Android means a human with a male robot appearance.
- The original URL for Yahoo was http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo
- Google’s first-ever Tweet was in February 2009, and it was “ I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010.” Translating from binary into English, this tweet says “ I’m feeling lucky. ”
- Amazon.com was previously known as Cadabra.com
- Snapchat launched in 2011 and it was named as Picaboo, but in 2012 it was renamed to Snapchat.
- Bill Gates house was designed using a Macintosh Computer.
- The word robot comes from the Czech robota, which means forced labour or work.
- You can’t reverse a bitcoin transaction
- 30th of November is known as Computer Security Day.
- The creators of the PNG file format wanted it to be pronounced as ping.
- A dentist named Alfred Southwick invented the electric chair.
- Doug Engelbart created the very first computer mouse from wood in 1964.
- In 1822, Charles Babbage created the first computer.
- Technophobia is the fear of technology.
- Nintendo was started in 1889 as a playing card company.
- The very first domain name registered was www.symbolics.com, on the 15th March 1985
- The domain name www.youyube.com was registered on 14th February 2005
- In 1999, PayPal was voted as one of the top ten worst business ideas.
- Comic Sans font is widely known as the world’s most hated font.
- The first commercial text message was sent in December 1992.
- Klingon was added as a Google language option in 2002.
- The first-ever Internet Service Provider (ISP) was a company named CompuServe.
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