19 tech facts to blow your mind
1. If airplanes shrunk and grew more efficient at the same rate that a computer processor did, then people could travel from Tokyo to New York in 2 minutes, and the plane would be the size of a sheet of paper.
2. Bill Gates' House was built using architecture from a Mac computer
3. The word typewriter is the longest word that can be typed using only keys on the top row of the keyboard
4. More people in the world have a phone than a toothbrush (4 billion to 3.5 billion)
5. HP (Hewlett-Packard), Microsoft, and Apple were all started in a garage
6. The world's first telephone call took place in 1988
7. 1,000,000,000 (1 Billion) things are searched
8. 97 percent of all emails are sorted as spam
9. Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1997 was the first presidential inauguration to broadcast publicly over the internet
10. Thomas Edison published 1093 patents in the course of his lifetime -- an unsurpassed record!
11. The first message sent by telegraph in 1901 contained only the letter 's'
12. At least 6,000 new viruses are created each month. Most of them are relatively harmless though.
13. The music video for the song "Gangnam Style" by officialpsy has surpassed 3 billion views on YouTube.
14. About 60 billion emails are sent per day
15. 90 percent of text messages are read within the first 3 minutes of their sending
16. For 30 years, the password for the US nuclear missile launch codes was 00000000, if criminals could get past the bio metric security parameters
17. The computer mouse was invented at least 3 times by 3 different people
18. (Not really tech related) 80% of your emotions are genetic
19. For more than half of its history, Nintendo solely manufactured playing cards - no electronics.
2. Bill Gates' House was built using architecture from a Mac computer
3. The word typewriter is the longest word that can be typed using only keys on the top row of the keyboard
4. More people in the world have a phone than a toothbrush (4 billion to 3.5 billion)
5. HP (Hewlett-Packard), Microsoft, and Apple were all started in a garage
6. The world's first telephone call took place in 1988
7. 1,000,000,000 (1 Billion) things are searched
8. 97 percent of all emails are sorted as spam
9. Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1997 was the first presidential inauguration to broadcast publicly over the internet
10. Thomas Edison published 1093 patents in the course of his lifetime -- an unsurpassed record!
11. The first message sent by telegraph in 1901 contained only the letter 's'
12. At least 6,000 new viruses are created each month. Most of them are relatively harmless though.
13. The music video for the song "Gangnam Style" by officialpsy has surpassed 3 billion views on YouTube.
14. About 60 billion emails are sent per day
15. 90 percent of text messages are read within the first 3 minutes of their sending
16. For 30 years, the password for the US nuclear missile launch codes was 00000000, if criminals could get past the bio metric security parameters
17. The computer mouse was invented at least 3 times by 3 different people
18. (Not really tech related) 80% of your emotions are genetic
19. For more than half of its history, Nintendo solely manufactured playing cards - no electronics.
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