Tech Facts Series 9 of 10

              Facts Related To Technology 

Steve Jobs used sleight of hand at the first iPhone presentation-   The first iPhone presentation happened six months before the iPhone was set to hit the market. At that time, the phone was too buggy to use, so Steve Jobs often had to switch phones behind his desk. Otherwise, it would run out of RAM and crash.

The majority of the people plug in their USB wrong- 86% of people try to plug in their USB devices upside down.

The original Xbox had sound snippets of real space missions-  The original Xbox contained edited sound bites from actual transmissions from the Apollo missions. If you left the Xbox on the home screen, eventually you’ll hear whispers of conversation – actual chatter from the Apollo mission.

Which came first, Spam mail or Spam meat?-  Spam mail was named after the canned meat! In a Monty Python skit, they said Spam meat was “horrible and being ubiquitous and inescapable”.

The first computer mouse wasn’t made from plastic-  It was rectangular and featured a little button on the top right.

Mac computers were named after the apple- It’s not a coincidence that “Macintosh” is similar to the apples called “macintosh”. The name was misspelled on purpose to avoid conflict with a manufacturer called “McIntosh Laboratory”.

There are Amish computers-  There are computers specially designed without internet, video, or music capabilities, just for the Amish.

GPS is free… for some- Even though it is free to use GPS globally, it costs $2 million dollars to operate every day.

People read faster or slower depending on what they read from- Not only do you blink less when you’re on a computer, but reading from a screen also slows you down.

Alexa is always listening to your conversations-  Alexa stores your dialogue history to its cloud to help improve your Alexa experience.

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