In this blog, i have compiled a list of 36 fun facts about technology that you may not know.
1. The first alarm clock was designed for one person and could only go off at 4am – when they had to get up and get ready for work. An adjustable alarm clock was not created for another 60 years.
2. The only state that can be typed on the same line of a QWERTY keyboard is Alaska. You just checked didn’t you?
3. In 1999, PayPal, with its original business model, was voted top ten worst business ideas. As of 2015, they are a $9.24 billion dollar business.
4. 80% of YouTube’s videos are viewed from outside the United States.
5. The 2015 most popular mobile app was Facebook.
6. People who are using a computer blink 66% less than those who aren’t.
7. The first ever domain to be registered, symbolics.com, is still in existence today 31 years and 275 million domain names later.
8. China has banned YouTube, Facebook, Gmail, Twitter, Instagram, Dropbox and Skype from public use.
9. The computers used in the Apollo 11 trip to the moon had less processing power than a modern day cell phone.
10. Only 45.8% of China’s population uses the internet, yet a 2016 statistic shows that China has more people using the internet that any other country.
11. Remember in the 1990 film Total Recall when Arnold Schwarzenegger climbed into the robotaxi (Johnnycab)? Well, if you travel to the United Arab Emirates, you can now ride in a robotaxi, too. Run entirely on electricity, this autonomous taxi is no longer a thing of the future.
12. An ecofriendly car that can act as a backup power generator for your house in the event of a blackout? That’s the futuristic Toyota FCV.
13. Around the year 1500, Leonardo da Vinci sketched plans for a robot.
14. On eBay, there is an average of $680 worth of transactions every second.
15 Ninety-one percent of all adults have their mobile phone within arm’s reach every hour of ever day.
16. There are 6.8 billion people on the planet and 4 billion of them use a mobile phone. Only
3.5 billion of them use a toothbrush.
17. Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, as well as Apple have one not so obvious thing in common – they were all started in a garage.
18. Twenty-five percent of Americans use only a mobile device to use the Internet.
19. Every minute, 100 hours of video are uploaded on YouTube by individual users.
20. There are 271 million mobile subscribers within the United States alone, and numbers are quickly growing.
21. Two hundred and twenty million tons of old computers and other technology devices are trashed in the United States each year.
22. Ninety percent of text messages are read within three minutes of being delivered.
23. Thirty million individuals watch television programming from their mobile phones.
24. The average 21 year old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games, sent 250,000 emails, instant messages, and text messages, and has spent 10,000 hours on a mobile phone alone.
25. The first personal computer was created by Berkeley Enterprises. Affectionately referred to as Simon, it sold for a pricey $300 in 1950.
26. It has been 40 years since the world’s first mobile phone call successfully took place.
27. On average, technology users carry 2.9 devices on them at all times.
28. There are 350 million Snapchat messages sent every day.
29. Since the company’s inception, there have been 144.7 million individual visitors to Facebook, making it the most visited social networking site as of June 2013.
30. RadioShack was one of the first companies to start the personal computer revolution, back in 1970, with its TRS-80.
31. The first mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1963; it consisted of a hard wooden shell and two clunky metal wheels.
32. Of the 60 billion emails that are sent on a daily basis, 97 percent are considered spam.
33. The first cell phone sold in the United States – the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X – was designed by Rudy Krolopp in April of 1984. It weighed two pounds.
34. Google handles an estimated 1 billion search queries each and every day, releasing almost 200 tons of CO2 per day.
35. There are 500 apps added each day to the Windows Phone Store.
36. The man known as the Father of Information Theory, Claude Shannon, invented the digital circuit – the foundation of the magic that provides us all access to the Internet today - during his master’s degree program, when he was just 21 years old.
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