Astonishing Tech Facts One Must Know!

Here are some astonishing tech facts, have a look at it.

• The Windows 95 and Windows 98 logos were created with freehand on a Macintosh.
• Windows 3.1 was a big hit when it was released and within two months, 3 million copies were sold out.
• The Japanese version of MS Office has an virtual office assistant that you can’t find in any other versions. The ‘Office Lady’ serves tea.
• Bill Gates’ home was designed using a Mac!
• Name “Adobe” Adobe software came from the name of the river Adobe Creek. The river ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.
• Bill Gates’ first company was “Traf-O-Data”. Company developed the software to analyse traffic.
• A refresh rate of 85 Hz on your monitor means that every single pixel is refreshed 85 times in a second.
• Intel is short form of Integrated Electronics.
• Intel’s ‘Intel Inside’ logo was made on an Apple Macintosh.
• Google name came from the mathematical figure googol which has the meaning of ‘one followed by a hundred zeros’.
• The technical word “Bug” and “Debug” which we use in programming language were first used by Grace Murray Hopper. She found a moth in Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator at Harvard University, she called it bug and debugged it by removing from that machine.
• Satyam Online was the first private Internet Service Provider that offered Internet connections in India in 1998.
• ARPANET which stands for Advanced Research Projects Agency Network of United States Department of Defense was the first ‘Internet’ launched in 1969.
• AT&T manufactured the first commercial modem in 1962, the modem’s name was “Bell 103”.
• The most pricy domain name was ‘business.com’. It was purchased by eCommerce companies for $7.5 million in 1999.
• Pacman which was one of the most popular arcade games of all times, was released in 1980.
• On April 18, 2005, Adobe Systems acquired Macromedia for about $3.4 billion in stock. “Macromedia Flash” was most renowned product of Macromedia which is now called as “Adobe Flash”.
• Yahoo! Word came from Gulliver’s Travels witten by Jonathan Swift.
• After English, Japanese and German are the most used languages on internet.
• A hacker with gentle intentions is called a ‘white hat’.
• The full form of HCL is Hindustan Computers Limited. It was started in 1976 in India and has two business enterprises namely HCL Technologies and HCL Infosystems.

Source: Internet

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