- A red panda is an animal native to the Himalayas and south-western 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 panda, not a fox!
- Amazon started as a printed book seller, now; however, they sell more e-books online than actual printed books
- If Facebook subscribers were a country, it would be the 3rd most populated country in the world with over 1 billion users subscribed to Facebook
- Email existed before the World Wide Web
- Did you know that Bill Gates’ house was designed on a Macintosh computer. He also dropped out of college before becoming a household name
- 70% of virus writers work under a contract for an organisation
- For 20 years the passwords to U.S. nuclear missiles were “00000000”
- The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half of the normal rate of 20
- Your electronic data can be corrupted by high energy particles in outer space!! Woah!
- For more than half its history, Nintendo only made playing cards
- Google rents out goats from a company called California Grazing to help cut down weeds and brush at the Google headquarters
- The word robot comes from the Czech “robota“. This translates into forced labour or work
- On 1st April 2005, NASA pulled a prank on the world by telling us they had found water on Mars #sorrynotsorry
- The very first Apple logo featured Sir Isaac Newton sitting underneath a tree, with an apple about to hit his head
- The first ever VCR, which was made in 1956, was the size of a piano!
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