Interesting Techy Facts

}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!

}Dragon Skin Body Armour is a newer invention that can withstand a grenade explosion at point-blank range.

}The very first Apple logo featured Sir Isaac Newton sitting underneath a tree, with an apple about to hit his head.

}Google rents out goats from a company called California Grazing to help cut down the amount of weeds and brush at Google HQ!

}The founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, was a college drop out.

}Bill Gates house was designed using a Macintosh Computer.

}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.

}You cannot reverse a Bitcoin transaction, or be forced to pay.

}The average computer user blinks seven times a minute, the normal rate is twenty times per minute.

}The first ever VCR, which was made in 1956, was the size of a piano!
On an average work day, a typist’s fingers travel about 12.6 miles.

}The first alarm clock could only ring at 4am.

}The 30th of November is known as “Computer Security Day“.

}On 1st April 2005, NASA pulled a prank telling the world that they had found water on Mars.

}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 was 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.