Interesting Facts and Technology
On August 2, 1922, at the end of Alexander Graham Bell’s funeral, the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute to pay tribute to its inventor.
- According to Apple, everything a person says to Siri is anonymized and sent to Apple to be analyzed and is stored for up to two years.
- In 2013, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg followed in the footsteps of Apple CEO Steve Jobs by making his annual salary $1.
- Every hour of every day, 91 percent of all adults have their mobile phone within arm’s reach. That’s less than two feet away.
- In 2012, a French woman received a phone bill for $15 quadrillion dollars of cancellation fees. The company only admitted the error after offering her a payment plan twice.
- In 1998, Sony had to recall 700,000 camcorders with night vision technology after they realized it could see through people’s clothes.
- There is a robot baby seal called “PARO” in Japan used for therapy by hospital patients or psychological treatment. It responds to human touch and voices.
- Financial statements show that Google earns $20 billion a year from advertising. That’s more than CBS, NBC, ABC, and FOX combined.
- The first computer built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak was done with spare parts acquired for free from their employers.
- The baby diaper company, Huggies, created an application that alerts a parent when their baby pees by monitoring changes in diaper humidity.
- On August 2, 1922, at the end of Alexander Graham Bell’s funeral, the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute to pay tribute to its inventor.
- In Norway all prisoners have access to the internet in their cells as the government believes it is important to maintain a connection to the outside world.
- By typing “about: robots” into the Mozilla Firefox URL bar, it will load and show a message from our “future robotic overlords.”
- According to a study done in early 2014, 1 in 9 US adults believed HTML is an STD. 1 in 5 believed blu-ray was actually a marine animal.
- In 1999 it was discovered that every single Hotmail account could be accessed by using the password “Eh.”
- Since 2012, almost all mobile phones in Japan were made waterproof because women liked to use their phone in the shower.
- In 2011, it was discovered that 69% of children aged 2 to 5, that were born in the Western world, can use a computer mouse. Yet only 11% can tie their own shoes.
- On average, 222 million tons of technology gadgets such as old computers are thrown out in the U.S. every year.
- In 2003, Queen Elizabeth II knighted the father of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, for his pioneering invention.
- Until 2007, Facebook’s homepage featured a picture of Al Pacino covered in binary code. It was created by Facebook Co-founder Andrew McCollum.
- When the iPhone was born in 2007, its camera suprisingly didn’t even have flash, auto focus, optical zoom, or video recording. It could only take still photos.
- On Facebook you are unable to block Mark Zuckerberg. After a 2010 viral campaign protesting Facebook’s privacy policies, a failsafe triggered causing this status.
- Despite exporting $500 billion of electronic products in 2014, including all of Apple’s products, only 20% of China’s population own a personal computer.
- Besides being some of the biggest names in the tech industry, HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple share another commonality. They were all started in garages.
- Most US cell phone carriers have developed a system in which you can text 9-1-1 for help. This will automatically take the location of the SMS and send help there.
- According to Sophos, every day at least 600,000 Facebook accounts and 30,000 websites are attempted to be hacked.
- Apple’s original logo was Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree while reading a book. They then changed it to the famous bitten, rainbow colored apple.
- Apple has a secret room in their California HQ where people open the packages of their products, trying to find what package elicits the best emotional responses.
- In 2013, a Sophos survey found that the average technology user owns 2.9 devices, such as smartphones, tablets, and laptops.
- In a 2010 study it was found that of all the active pages on the web, 37% were sites geared towards adult content.
- The first YouTube video ever uploaded was by San Diego Zoo co-founder Jawed Karim on April 23, 2005 and was titled “Me at the zoo.
- A single Google search needs more computing power than it took to send Apollo 11 to the Moon. The Apollo computer was less equipped than a modern toaster.
- In 1994, two Stanford University graduates founded “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web,” which is now known as Yahoo!
- In 2011, the United Nations declared that Internet access is a basic human right and disconnecting individuals from it is against international law.
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Interesting Facts and Technology
- According to Apple, everything a person says to Siri is anonymized and sent to Apple to be analyzed and is stored for up to two years.
- In 2013, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg followed in the footsteps of Apple CEO Steve Jobs by making his annual salary $1.
- Every hour of every day, 91 percent of all adults have their mobile phone within arm’s reach. That’s less than two feet away.
- In 2012, a French woman received a phone bill for $15 quadrillion dollars of cancellation fees. The company only admitted the error after offering her a payment plan twice.
- In 1998, Sony had to recall 700,000 camcorders with night vision technology after they realized it could see through people’s clothes.
- There is a robot baby seal called “PARO” in Japan used for therapy by hospital patients or psychological treatment. It responds to human touch and voices.
- Financial statements show that Google earns $20 billion a year from advertising. That’s more than CBS, NBC, ABC, and FOX combined.
- The first computer built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak was done with spare parts acquired for free from their employers.
- The baby diaper company, Huggies, created an application that alerts a parent when their baby pees by monitoring changes in diaper humidity.
- On August 2, 1922, at the end of Alexander Graham Bell’s funeral, the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute to pay tribute to its inventor.
- In Norway all prisoners have access to the internet in their cells as the government believes it is important to maintain a connection to the outside world.
- By typing “about: robots” into the Mozilla Firefox URL bar, it will load and show a message from our “future robotic overlords.”
- According to a study done in early 2014, 1 in 9 US adults believed HTML is an STD. 1 in 5 believed blu-ray was actually a marine animal.
- In 1999 it was discovered that every single Hotmail account could be accessed by using the password “Eh.”
- Since 2012, almost all mobile phones in Japan were made waterproof because women liked to use their phone in the shower.
- In 2011, it was discovered that 69% of children aged 2 to 5, that were born in the Western world, can use a computer mouse. Yet only 11% can tie their own shoes.
- On average, 222 million tons of technology gadgets such as old computers are thrown out in the U.S. every year.
- In 2003, Queen Elizabeth II knighted the father of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, for his pioneering invention.
- Until 2007, Facebook’s homepage featured a picture of Al Pacino covered in binary code. It was created by Facebook Co-founder Andrew McCollum.
- When the iPhone was born in 2007, its camera suprisingly didn’t even have flash, auto focus, optical zoom, or video recording. It could only take still photos.
- On Facebook you are unable to block Mark Zuckerberg. After a 2010 viral campaign protesting Facebook’s privacy policies, a failsafe triggered causing this status.
- Despite exporting $500 billion of electronic products in 2014, including all of Apple’s products, only 20% of China’s population own a personal computer.
- Besides being some of the biggest names in the tech industry, HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple share another commonality. They were all started in garages.
- Most US cell phone carriers have developed a system in which you can text 9-1-1 for help. This will automatically take the location of the SMS and send help there.
- According to Sophos, every day at least 600,000 Facebook accounts and 30,000 websites are attempted to be hacked.
- Apple’s original logo was Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree while reading a book. They then changed it to the famous bitten, rainbow colored apple.
- Apple has a secret room in their California HQ where people open the packages of their products, trying to find what package elicits the best emotional responses.
- In 2013, a Sophos survey found that the average technology user owns 2.9 devices, such as smartphones, tablets, and laptops.
- In a 2010 study it was found that of all the active pages on the web, 37% were sites geared towards adult content.
- The first YouTube video ever uploaded was by San Diego Zoo co-founder Jawed Karim on April 23, 2005 and was titled “Me at the zoo.
- A single Google search needs more computing power than it took to send Apollo 11 to the Moon. The Apollo computer was less equipped than a modern toaster.
- In 1994, two Stanford University graduates founded “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web,” which is now known as Yahoo!
- In 2011, the United Nations declared that Internet access is a basic human right and disconnecting individuals from it is against international law.