Strange and Interesting Facts and Tricks In Tech

What's up guy's, I promised you guys a "surprise post" and this is it. This post is about strange, funny and interesting facts in tech you probably didn't know about and trust me you are gonna love it. So, let's get started.

1.The First Apple Logo Is Not What You Think

Originally, it featured Sir Isaac Newton sitting beneath a tree, with an apple about to fall on his head.

It was designed back in 1976 and featured a phrase around the border that read “Newton…A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought…alone”. Seems kind of boring to me.

2.Google Rents Goats

Yes, you read that right. Instead of mowing the lawn, google rents goats to eat the grass of their headquarters at Mountain view.

A herder brings 200 goats that are herded by a border collie called Jen.

3.The first VCR is way!!! bigger than I thought

When the first Video Camera Recorder Came out 1956, it was the size of a piano, way bigger than I would have thought.

4.Samsung Wasn't a Tech Company

You must be surprised by this, but Samsung wasn't a tech company. It was a grocery store founded on March 1, 1938, by Lee Byung Chull.

5.A Petabyte is a lot of data

Ok, we all know that 1 byte is equivalent to 1024 bits, 1 kilobyte is equal to 1024 bytes, 1 megabyte is equal to 1024 kilobytes, 1 gigabyte is equal to 1024 megabytes, 1 terabyte is equal to 1024 megabytes, but did you know that 1 petabyte is equal to 1024 terabytes?

To explain how big this is, a 1 petabyte hard drive could hold 13.3 years of HD videos.

While 50 Petabytes could hold all the written works of mankind from the beginning of history in all languages. Now that's big!!

6.Domain name registration used to be free

Up until 1995, to register a domain name (website name) was free because people didn't think the internet would be this big.

But the initial prices were high. About $100 for 2 years.

7.Megabytes used to weigh a lot

More specifically, 5MBs used to weigh 1 ton.

In 1956, the first computer had something similar to a hard drive.

At that time in history, it was a huge leap in storage capabilities and the cabinet that held the hard drive was 1 ton and could hold only 5MBs of data.

8.Alexa is always listening to your conversation 

This probably isn’t new to you. Siri has been doing it forever.Alexa stores your dialogue history to its cloud to help improve your Alexa experience by giving you suggestions and tips based on what you say close to her.

But you can review and delete these recordings, either in bulk, or individually.

9.Spam mail was named after 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”.

Sounds pretty accurate to the annoying junk mail I get all the time.

Also, did you know that on average, for every spam email sent, they only get one reply for every twelve million spam emails sent?

Is it even worth it at that point?

10.Finding the android easter egg

Do you know about the android easter eggs?

These are hidden interesting programmers in all android phones.

To activate it, go to settings, scroll down to about phone and click on it. Scroll down till you find android version, then you continuously tap it and then the easter egg will pop up.

The easter eggs differ based on your android version.

Conclusion

So there you have it folks, I'm sure some of these things surprised you and I hope you guys also enjoy the read. If you did, you could like, comment and consider follow too so if anything like this comes again, you would be the first to know.