Top Interesting Facts About Technology
In today's blog find out How youtube was created as a dating site initially OR How google got its name accidentally?
Yes!! Without wasting time let's start our blog of "Top10 Interesting Facts about the Technology".
1. Apple
Incorporation the American multinational tech giant the first apple logo did not describe the physical shape of an apple. Despite carrying the name apple.
The Apple company's first logo did not describe the physical shape of an apple.
In fact, The first logo was created by Ronald Wayne, one of which co-founded Apple in the early days of 1976 who wanted to represent the law of gravity. That is inspired by an apple.
Originally it featured Sir Isaac Newton sitting beneath a tree with an apple about to fall on his head. It featured a phrase around the border that tread Newton's mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.
2. NASA
Did you know that NASA's internet speed is 91 gigabits per second... OMG...
If there's one organization that never has to worry about streaming videos in glorious hd it's NASA. The space organization's shadow network can transfer 91 gigabits per second or 91,000 megabits per second. The average household internet speeds are roughly 25 mb per second and let's face the fact if there's any company that would actually make good use of their internet speeds it's NASA.
This is not okay!!
3. Google
The next fact, which is about Google.
Did you know the name Google was created accidentally?
Well as it turns out the name google was created accidentally. It was originally supposed to be named 'Googol'. (Googol is the digit 1 followed by 100 zeroes). The founders checked to see if that domain name was taken, but accidentally searched for 'google.com' instead of 'googol.com'. They liked that name even better and registered the domain name on September 15,1997.
4. Twitter
The microblogging system allows you to send and receive short posts called Tweets.
Did you know 350,000 tweets are sent per minute?
Well every second on average around 6,000 tweets are tweeted on Twitter which corresponds to over 350,000 tweets sent per minute. 500 million tweets per day and around 200 billion tweets per year.
5. Tech Samsung
Giant Samsung the south korean tech giant is one of the world's largest producers of electronic devices.
Did you know that Samsung is 38 years and one month older than apple?
Samsung was founded as a grocery store on March 1,1938 by Lee Byung Chul. Apple founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created Apple computer incorporated on April 1,1976.
6. Google Searches
There are over 35 billion google searches each month.
In may 2019, the top three most googled words were
facebook 233 million searches
youtube 194 million searches
amazon 103 million searches
7. USB Drives
Drives the majority of the people plug in their USB wrong. 86 percent of people try to plug in their USB devices upside down. That makes me feel a lot better about getting it wrong every time.
8. YouTube
We all love youtube but
Did you know Youtube was created to be a dating site in the first place?
It was designed as a way for people to upload videos of themselves talking about the partner of their dreams but after sometime when no one was uploading their videos.
Youtube changed to allow uploading of any kind of video as of may 2019 more than 500 hours of video were uploaded to youtube every minute.
9. Computer Viruses
We all hate viruses so we thought of adding a fact about them to keep you alert in the future. Over six thousand ( 6,000 ) new computer viruses are created and released every month.
This number has drastically risen since 1990 at which point there were only 50 known computer viruses. Today 90% of emails contain some form of malware and most people don't know about it.
10. Facebook
Did you know that there are more likes than photos on facebook?
Yes!!
Every day over 300 million photos are uploaded to facebook
and 800 million likes are given out per day.
Hope you enjoyed this blog and find out something new.
