Tech Facts Series 6 of 10

              Facts Related To Technology 

NASA’s internet speed is 91 GB per second-  The average household internet speeds are roughly 25 MB per second. But NASA's internet speed is 91GB\sec.

Comic Sans is the most hated font in the world-  Comic Sans was designed to be an unserious, handwritten style font to use in comic books. Although everyone loves to hate on this tasteless font (including myself!) it is actually very useful for dyslexic people.

iPhones were almost in the shape of an apple-  The original design for an iPhone was in the shape of a literal apple.

There are more likes than photos on Facebook-  Every day, over 300 million photos are uploaded to Facebook, while 800 million likes are given out per day.

Over 6,000 new computer viruses are created and released every month-  This number has drastically risen since 1990, at which point there were only 50 known computer viruses.

The first commercial text message was sent in 1992- On December 3, 1992, a software architect, Sema Group, used a computer to text “Merry Christmas” to a Vodafone employee who was using an Orbitel 901 handset.

The first cell phone call was in New York City-  In 1973, the first-ever mobile phone call was made by Martin Cooper, an employee of Motorola, made from the streets of New York City.

Google’s first tweet was gibberish-  Google’s first-ever tweet on Twitter was nonsense! It reads, “I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010”. Translated from binary to English, this tweet says “I’m feeling lucky.”

Blind people can use cell phones-  There is special Braille technology and accessories for blind people to use cell phones.

Technology is now influencing baby names-  Alexa was the 32nd most popular name for girls born in 2015 but dropped to 90th place in 2018.

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