Facts Related To Technology
Smoking will void your Apple warranty- Apple has a “smoking” ban on their computers, meaning if you smoke while using any Apple computer, the warranty becomes void.
There’s a name for when you feel your phone vibrate… but it doesn’t- “Phantom Vibration Syndrome” is the name for when someone thinks their phone is vibrating, but it isn’t.
Google searches hit the billions every month- In May 2019, the top three most Googled words were “Facebook” at 233 million searches, “youtube” with 194 million searches, and “amazon” with 103 million searches.
Android is gender-specific- The word “Android” literally means a human with a male robot appearance.
PlayStation 1 had Scratch and Sniff discs- When FIFA 2001 was released in 2000, they used Scratch and Sniff technology on their discs so it smelled like football stadium turf.
The Nintendo Game Boy went to space- In 1993, a Soviet cosmonaut brought his Nintendo Game Boy to space on the TM-17 space mission.
The first word to ever be auto-corrected was “teh"- In order to auto-correct “teh” to “the,” you had to press the left arrow and F3.
Everyone uses Google as a spellchecker- 97% of people type in words to Google just to see if they spelled it right.
Yahoo’s original name was a mouthful- The name Yahoo was selected because it was derived from Gulliver’s Travels slang, “Yahoo” which was a fictional race of beings in the book.
You can spell your email in Morse code- In 2004, the @ symbol became the first new character to be added to Morse code for the first time in many decades.
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