Top 10 tech facts !

 1. Google rents out goats.

You read that right, instead of mowing their lawn, Goggle rents goats to eat the grass at their Mountain View headquarters.

A herder will bring 200 goats which are herded by a border collie named Jen.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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!.

5. 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.

6. 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 to its cloud to help improve your Alexa experience.

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

7. 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”.

8. The first computer mouse wasn’t made from plastic.

Back in 1964, Doug Engelbart invented the first-ever computer mouse! Back then, it was made out of wood.

It was rectangular and featured a little button on the top right.

He called it a mouse because the cord coming out of the back reminded him of the tiny rodents.

9. The QWERTY keyboard was explicitly designed to slow typing.

Fans of the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard scoff at the inefficiencies of the QWERTY keyboard layout that most people use. Originally, however, QWERTY’s inefficiencies held a clear purpose: the keyboard design was intended to slow down users.

At one time, mechanical typewriters jammed if typists were too quick. QWERTY cut down on this problem. Today, we continue to use QWERTY because we’re accustomed to it, but many experts strongly favor alternate typing approaches.

10.  It’s still possible to visit the world’s first webpage.

The original webpage went live in 1991 and ran on a NeXT computer at CERN — the European Organization for Nuclear Research. This useful page was entirely dedicated to informing the public about the World Wide Web. Today, it primarily serves as a historical archive. Click here to check it out.