the most interesting tech facts

• A computer as powerful as the human brain would be able to perform about 38 thousand trillion operations per second and hold about 3,584 terabytes of memory.

• CAPTCHA is an acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”.

• In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn’t considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator
  

• The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
  

• Google actually have a "Wedding Planner" site
  

• The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com
  

• On eBay, there is an average of $680 worth of transactions every second
  

• Every minute, 300 hours of video are uploaded on YouTube.
  

• The first banner advertisement on Website was introduced in the year 1994.
  The banner promote seven art museums, sponsored by AT&T, to the readers of HotWired.com
  

• Mosaic was the first popular web browser which was released in 1993
  

• Google HQ rents goats from California Grazing to mow their lawns and fields. The employees think that it’s a lot cuter to watch goats do the mowing than lawn mowers
  

• Motorola’s has developed an “edible password pill” which once digested, is activated by the acid in your stomach emitting an 18 bit signal which is strong enough to communicate and unlock all your devices and is also FDA approved.
  

• When the first iPod prototype was shown to Steve Jobs, he dropped it in an aquarium and used the air bubbles to prove there was empty space and it could be made smaller.

• A supercomputer took 40 minutes to model one second of brain activity! The most accurate simulation of the human brain ever has been carried out, but a single second’s worth of activity took one of the world’s largest supercomputers 40 minutes to calculate.

• There’s a computer marketed to the Amish. It has no Internet, no video, no music.
  

• All GPS units sold in the civilian market have to be programmed to deactivate themselves if they detect they are traveling faster than 1200 MPH or are above 60,000 feet in altitude to prevent them being used in intercontinental ballistic missiles.

• The first man to fly and the first man to walk on the moon were alive at the same time. Neil Armstrong was 17 when Orville Wright died.

• There used to be fake Apple stores in China, even the staff were convinced they were working for Apple.
  

• NASA is currently working on a warp drive that could get us to Alpha Centauri in 2 weeks.
  

• In 2011 a 75-year old woman stole some fiber optic cable, cutting 2 entire countries off the internet.
  

• The cell phone camera shutter sound is to discourage groper upskirt shots. It still cannot be turned off on most current phones in Asia.
  

• Apple makes their employees work on fake projects until they can be trusted.
  
  

• Twitter, Wikipedia, and AOL IM all crashed at 3:15pm the day Michael Jackson died.

• A man was held in prison for four and a half years, without conviction, because law enforcement was convinced that he could start a nuclear war by whistling into a payphone.

• A robot was created solely to punch human beings in the arm to test pain thresholds so that future robots can comply to the first law of robotics.

• File sharing is now a recognized religion in Sweden, and it’s called ”Kopimism”.

• The United Nations declared the internet a basic human right as of June 2011.

Comment if you aware about some facts i missed!