Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Some Interesting Tech Facts You Should Know

     Technology covers a wide range of interesting areas that include mobile phones, computers, internet, robots, software’s, and many more areas. Technology keeps on changing. But in it’s the span of life time there will be many interested facts. It will be very interesting to know these cool tech facts.


20 Interesting Tech facts

A computer is as powerful as human brain. It can perform about 38 thousand trillion operations per second and can hold about 3,584 terabytes of memory. It is as powerful as human brain.

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

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The word Ubuntu comes from an American word meaning “I am because of you”. Ubuntu is one of the more popular distributions of Linux.

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Facebook has a blue color scheme because the creator, Mark Zuckerberg cannot see the colors, red and green.

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In 1980s, an IBM computer was not considered 100% compatible, unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator.

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

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

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The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in 1964. It was made of wood.

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The first domain name registered was symbolics.com

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Every minute, 300 hours of videos are uploaded on YouTube.

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

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

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Motorola 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. It is also approved by FDA.

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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.

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A standard 3x3x3 Rubik’s cube have 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 combinations, but only one solution.

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The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was the first cell phone sold in the United States. It was designed by Rudy Krolopp in April 1984, with weight 2 ponds.

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‘Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis’  is the longest word in the English language printed in a dictionary. It refers to a disease caused by inhaling ash from a volcanic eruption.

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The first Apple logo featured Sir Isaac Newton sitting underneath a tree, with an apple about to hit on his head.

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Google’s first ever Tweet on Twitter was in February 2009, and reads “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.”

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   These are 20 interesting tech facts out of many available. I will update you further interesting tech facts available in the coming posts.

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