Hello guys 👋 as I told yesterday from today we are moving on to random facts from tech facts so, let's get straight into it. 1) The popular board game "Snakes and Ladders" was originated in India to teach children about karma. Credits: Wikipedia.org 2) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan and Nelson Mandela are the only non-indians to be awarded the Bharat Ratna. Credits: rashtrapatisachivalaya.gov.in Credits: Wikipedia.org 3) Indian Holi is similar to Spanish festival La Tomatina. The only difference is Holi colours are replaced with ripe tomatoes. Credits: theculturetrip.com Credits: ibitimes.co.in 4) India has the largest postal system in the world with almost 1,55,000 or 155,000 post offices. Credits: upost.gov.in 5) There are over 6,500 languages spoken in the world 🌍. Really fascinating isn't it? evolving from a monkey 🐵 to human 🧔 and speaking thousands of languages. Credits: freepik.com 6) Do you know that Koalas 🐨 can sleep upto 20 hours p...
Hello everyone 👋 let's get to the tech facts straight away 😀
1) The first Sony product was a electric rice cooker which was made by interlocking aluminium electrodes. In 1945, after Japan faced defeat in World War II Sony's founder Masaru Ibuka invented this product to feed those millions of homes. Sony's name at that time was the Tokyo Telecommunications Research Institute.
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2) The computer keyboard contains up to 20,000 times more bacteria than a toilet seat, smartphone has more than 9,000 times bacteria than a toilet and computer mouse is 45,000 more messier than a handle of a toilet as per the research by CBT Nuggets.
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3) Mobile phone throwing is an official sport in Finland. It was launched as a international sport that started in Savonlinna, Finland in 2000. The world record holder is Germany's Tom Philipp Reinhardt who has thrown the phone 📱 136.75 meters.
Credits: edtimes.in
4) A group of 12 engineers designed IBM PC and they were called "The Dirty Dozen". According to the book "IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems," the dirty dozen were John Harmon, Jim Woo, Martin Halfhill, Russell Brunner, John McNulty, Robert Crouch, Frank Sordello, Rick Wilford, Steven MacArthur, Carlo Westenskow, Stanley Brown and Harold Yang.
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5) The domain Google.com was registered on 15th September,1997. Earlier it was called "Backrub".
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6) Before alarm clocks there were professional people to awaken the people. They knocked on doors of the people's houses to wake them up. It was a very good profession in Britain and Ireland in the Industrial Revolution. Those people who did that profession was called "knocker-up".
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7) The homepage of Google looks simple as the founders had limited knowledge of HTML. Once Google's co-founder Sergey Brin told " We didn't have a webmaster and I don't do HTML. From Sept 4,1998 till now Google has maintained its simple form.
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8) The first floppy disk was 8 inches which was invented by Alan Shugart in 1967 at IBM and its storage capacity was only 80 kB. It's amazing to see the revolution on disk storage now we can have 1 TB storage in our pockets.
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9) On Sept 30,1985 the first version of Microsoft Excel was for Apple's Macintosh and not for Microsoft. The first Windows version 2.05 was released in November 1987 to synchronise it with version 2.2 of Macintosh.
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10) HP, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Dell, Disney all these companies which have a really big market share today in technology was started in a garage. So, if you have an idea that you think will work out just don't think about not having resources just start small with what you have you achieve like them one day have faith in yourself💪😉.
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That's the end of the post. Hope you gained some knowledge thanks for reading 😊.
Author: Ganesh Ram.
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