· 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!
· The
very first Apple logo featured Sir Isaac Newton sitting underneath a tree, with
an apple about to hit his head.
· The
founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, was a college drop out.
· The
word robot comes from the Czech “robota“.
This translates into forced labour, or work.
· CD’s,
or Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, which is the reverse
of how records work.
· The
first ever VCR, which was made in 1956, was the size of a piano!
· The
first alarm clock could only ring at 4am.
· The
radio took 38 years to reach a market audience of 50 million.
· The
television took 13 years to reach a market audience of 50 million.
· The
iPod took 3 years to reach a market audience of 50
million.
· If you
were to have your picture taken by the very first camera, you’d need to sit
still for 8 hours.
· A
dentist named Alfred Southwick invented the electric chair.
· The
creators of the PNG file format wanted it to be pronounced as ‘ping’.
· Skype
is banned from the public in China.
Source: http://www.thefactsite.com/2013/02/top-100-technology-facts.html
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