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.
The word was first used to refer to a fictional humanoid in a play in 1920.
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.
Way bigger than I would have guessed!
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
A Petabyte is a lot of data.
We all know 1 GB is the same as 1024 MB, but did you know that 1 petabyte (PB) is equivalent to 1024 terabytes (TB)?
To give an example of how big this is, a 1 PB hard drive could hold 13.3 years of HD-TV video.
A 50 PB hard drive could hold the entire written works of mankind, from the beginning of recorded history, in all languages.
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.
When a fee was introduced, it was high! Prices were typically $100 for two years of registration.
Megabytes used to weigh hundreds of pounds.
More specifically, 5 megabytes of data weighed one ton.
In 1956, the first computer had something similar to a hard drive.
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.
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.
Meanwhile, the iPod only took 3 years to reach the same milestone!
The first camera needed an incredibly long exposure.
The first photograph ever taken in 1826 took 8 hours to expose!
The creator of that camera, Louis Daguerre, was able to lower that time drastically to just 15 minutes in 1839.
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!
It was first used in France, followed shortly after by Germany.
Alexa is always listening to your conversations.
This probably isn’t new to you. siri has been doing it forever.
Alexa stores your dialogue history in its cloud to help improve your Alexa experience.
But you can review and delete these recordings, either in bulk or individually.
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.
On average, people read 10% slower from a screen than from paper!
As for the blinking part, did you know that during everyday life, people normally blink at a rate of twenty times per minute?
But put them in front of a computer, and that number drops way down to seven times per minute!
GPS is free… for some.
Even though it is free to use GPS globally, it costs $2 million dollars to operate every day.
This money comes from American tax revenue.
There are Amish computers.
There are computers specially designed without internet, video, or music capabilities, just for the Amish.
The features include word processing, drawing, accounting, spreadsheets, and more – but not much more.
Mac computers were named after the apple.
It’s not a coincidence that “Macintosh” is similar to the apples called “mcintosh.”
The name was misspelled on purpose to avoid conflict with a manufacturer called “McIntosh Laboratory.”
