facts-about-technology

Technology

• NASA is currently working on a warp drive that could get us to Alpha Centauri in 2 weeks.
• Entire Data of the world can be Stored in 4 grams of DNA.
• Alex Tew, the head of Calm.com, created The Million Dollar Homepage in 2005. The website sells each pixel for $1 and it became an internet phenomenon.
• 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.
• Interbrand invented the term “Wi-Fi” as a play on words of the term “Hi-Fi” or “High Fidelity”. However, Wi-Fi doesn’t actually stand for anything.
• 90% of text messages are read within three minutes of being delivered.
• Amazon sells more e-books than printed books.
• The average mobile Internet connection speed is less than 20Mbps. South Korea has the fastest Internet speeds with 52.4 Mbps.
• The technology used for 3D printing initially appeared in the 1980s when it was known as Rapid Prototyping.
• Email existed before the world wide web.
• Samsung created first ever fighter jet KF-16 of South Korea.
• The world record for fastest texter is held by a Brazilian teenager by 18.19 seconds.
• The PayPal Mafia is a group of some of the richest men in Silicon Valley. All are former PayPal founders or employees who went on to found other tech giants including Tesla, Inc., LinkedIn, YouTube, and Yelp.
• A petabyte (PB) is equivalent to 1024 terabytes (TB). A 1 PB hard drive is big enough for 13.3 years of HD-TV video, while a 50 PB drive could contain all written works of mankind throughout recorded history, in all languages.
• 99% of Google profit comes from its advertising. In early 1999, Google's founders decided to sell it for US$1 Million to Excite CEO but they refused it.
• Russia built a computer that ran on water: in 1936
• Previous names for wireless Internet were WaveLAN, FlankSpeed, DragonFly, WECA and IEEE 802.11b Direct Sequence, before the more consumer friendly name of Wi-Fi was adopted.
• Billboard magazine launched a top-20 chart of cell phone ringtones.
• Google actually have a "Wedding Planner" site
• More than 2 million people still pay for AOL dial-up.