Tech Facts Series 4 of 10

              Facts Related To Technology 

Technical degrees are almost useless by the time you graduate-  A degree looks good on paper, but in fact, technology is advancing faster than ever. So, if you start a four year degree, then half of what you learn by the time you finish will be obsolete.

Millions of hours of TV and movies are watched every day on Netflix.-  The world spends about 164 million hours every day streaming Netflix, which is equivalent to 18,812 years’ worth of TV and movies every 24 hours.

Over 90% of the world’s currency is digitals-  Between credit cards, debit cards, direct deposit, and online purchases, that leaves only about 8% of global currency to be physical money.

The passwords for the nuclear missiles were just a string of zero’s-  For 20 years, the password was eight zero’s all in a row – and it was written down so nobody forgot.

Some countries skipped the era of landlines-  Nigeria, Ghana, and Bangladesh went from zero to 100. Due to lack of resources, it was too costly to adapt to using landlines.

The first webpage is still running- Tim Berners-Lee was working on developing the World Wide Web.

The QWERTY keyboard was originally designed to slow you down-  Using a QWERTY keyboard spaced out commonly used characters to slow typists down and prevent jamming.

Using a thinner font can save printer ink-  Overall, it will only save you about 10% of your ink by using a lighter font.

Nearly one third of divorces are because of Facebook-  33% of divorced couples have stated Facebook was a reason for the break up.

My Space lost all of its content before 2016-  Due to a faulty server migration, every photo, song, and video that was uploaded to this one popular social network, all of it was accidentally deleted. That accounts for 50 million songs from 14 million artists like Lily Allen and Arctic Monkeys. Of course, many of these have backups that are probably on Spotify by now, but those that didn’t are now lost forever.

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