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Credit card chips have been around for a LONG time-   To many, credit card chips are a relatively new fad. However, chip technology has been around since 1986!

The first camera needed an incredibly long exposure- The first photograph ever taken in 1826 took 8 hours to expose!

The Radio took 38 years to reach an audience of 50 million-  You would think the invention of the radio would be a big deal, but it took 38 years for the radio to reach an audience of 50 million.

Megabytes used to weigh hundreds of pounds-  At the time, it was a huge leap in storage capabilities, but the cabinet that contained the hard drive weighed over 2,200 pounds and could hold 5 MBs of data.

Domain name registration used to be free-  Way back when people didn’t realize how huge the internet would be, registering a domain name was free until 1995.

A Petabyte is a lot of data-A 50 PB hard drive could hold the entire written works of mankind, from the beginning of recorded history, in all languages.

Samsung is 38 years and 1 month older than Apple-  Samsung was founded as a grocery store on March 1, 1938, by Lee Byung-Chull. Apple Founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created Apple Computer Inc. on April 1, 1976.

The first-ever VCR was the size of a piano- When the first VCR (Video Camera Recorder) was made in 1956, it was the size of a piano.

The name for “robot” has dark origins- If you look into the etymology of “robot,” it comes from the Czech word “robota” which translates to forced labor or work.

Google rents out goats- A herder will bring 200 goats which are herded by a border collie named Jen.

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