- The English word for red panda is ‘Firefox’ which is where the browser gets its name from – so the Firefox logo is actually a red panda, not a fox ! (A red panda is an animal native to the Himalayas and southwestern China)
- The very first Apple logo featured Sir Isaac Newton sitting underneath a tree, with an apple about to hit his head.
- The word robot comes from the Czech “robota“. This translates into forced labour, or work.
- The first alarm clock could only ring at 4am.
- If you was to have your picture taken by the very first camera, you’d need to sit still for 8 hours.
- Skype is banned from the public in China.
- In general, people tend to read as much as 10% slower from a screen than from paper.
- 86% of people try to plug their USB devices upside down.
- The very first domain name registered was www.symbolics.com, on the 15th March, 1985.
- It is estimated that spammers only receive 1 reply for every 12 million emails that they send out.
- The domain name www.YouTube.com was registered 14th February 2005.
- 97% of people type in random words on Google, just to see if they spelt it right.
