Interesting Technology Facts
Interesting Technology Facts
- 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.
- The first mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1963; it consisted of a hard wooden shell and two clunky metal wheels.
- The first personal computer was created by Berkeley Enterprises. Affectionately referred to asSimon, it sold for a pricey $300 in 1950.
- Google rents out goats from a company called California Grazing to help cut down the amount of weeds and brush at Google HQ!
- The word robot comes from the Czech “robota“. This translates into forced labour, or work.
- On an average work day, a typist’s fingers travel about 12.6 miles.
- The 30th of November is known as “Computer Security Day“.
- A red panda is an animal native to the Himalayas and southwestern China. The English word for red panda is ‘Firefox’ which is where the browser gets its name from – so the Firefox logo is actually a red panda, not a fox!
- There are more than 682 million iPhone across the globe.
- In 2012, at least 17 newborn girls were named Siri.