Fun Friday: Surprising Technology Facts That You Didn’t Know

davidn# — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 17:38:53 GMT

The original Apple logo featured Sir Isaac Newton sitting under a tree with an apple about to fall on his head. Quite different from the iconic apple shape we know today!

The Firefox browser logo isn’t actually a fox. It started as a red panda, but over time, the team began calling it a fox. So, is it a fox or a red panda? Depends on who you ask!

Instead of mowing their lawn, Google rents out goats to graze at their Mountain View headquarters. A border collie named Jen herds these eco-friendly lawnmowers.

The word “robot” comes from the Czech term “robota,” meaning forced labor. It was first used in a 1920 play to describe a fictional humanoid.

Mind-Boggling Data: A Petabyte is a lot of data. A petabyte (PB) equals 1024 terabytes (TB). Imagine a 1 PB hard drive holding 13.3 years of HD-TV video or the entire written works of mankind in all languages!

This $15 million iPhone 5 Black Diamond took nine weeks to construct, using 135 grams of 24-carat pure gold. The Apple emblem on the rear was inlaid with 53 white diamonds, while the chassis was encrusted with 600 white diamonds. Apart from these valuable elements, the phone’s screen is made of sapphire.

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