25 Stunning Facts About Technology

• By Michael Hahn
• 01/26/2013
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We all like getting informed on random stuff, so here are 25 stunning facts about technology! . . .

 

1. Bill Gates house was designed using a Macintosh Computer.

 

2. Amazon sells more eBooks than printed books.

 

3. 97% of emails sent every day are spam.

 

4. About 20% of videos on YouTube are music related.

 

5. Facebook is testing charging for sending messages to non-friends.

 

6. Google Earth was originally partly funded by the CIA.

 

7. Google was made in January of 1996.

 

8. About 1.8 billion people connect to the Internet, only 450 million of them speak English.

 

9. Since 2008, more video games have been sold than DVD’s.

 

10. There are more than 4 billion cell phones in use. About 3 million cell phones are sold every day.

 

11. The first TV Remote control was made in 1950.

 

12. The “www” part of a website is optional to have.

 

13. 16 million iTunes songs are sold daily.

 

14. Domain names are being registered at more than one million names per month.

 

15. New employee’s at Google are called Noogler’s.

 

16. Women are about %20 of all IT professionals.

 

17. Nearly %75 of all jobs tomorrow will need the use of a computer.

 

18. 43% of college students think their school needs more technology.

 

19. It took the television 13 years to reach 50 million users, but it only took the World Wide Web 4 years.

 

20. The very first alarm clock could only ring at 4 AM.

 

21. The first domain ever registered was Symbolics.com

 

22. Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives they save.

 

23. To have your picture taken by the first camera ever, you would have to sit for 8 hours.

 

24. The average 21-year-old has spent 10,000 hours on the mobile phone.

 

25. The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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