Computers and Technology Trivia

  • Laptop computers are 30% more likely to fail than desktop computers simply because they get bumped around a lot more.
  • Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter have all been blocked in China.
  • The closer people are to each other, the harder it is to lie. This is why it's so easy for people to lie on Twitter and Facebook.
  • Google owns a "secret" lab called "Google X" where they are working on a space elevator.
  • "Facebook Addiction Disorder" is a new mental disorder identified by Psychologists.
  • If you search for 'Google Gravity' and press 'I'm Feeling Lucky the page will fall apart'.
  • An exabyte is one quintillion bytes, or one billion gigabytes. Numerically, it reads: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000
  • Apple sold more iOS (iPhones, iPods, iPads) devices in 2011 than Macs in 28 years
  • The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
  • In 1943, Navy officer Grace Hopper had no choice but to fix a computer glitch manually. The source of the problem? A moth. Hence the term "computer bug."
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