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HYPE REMINDER!
Last GA was announced on Page 489!
YouTube is the second largest search engine, right after Google. It's bigger than Bing, Yahoo!, and Ask combined.
While most of the Amazon rainforest is in Brazil (60%), it's also in Peru (13%), Colombia (10%), Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and three countries.
There is a secret swimming pool in the Mojave Desert that anyone who finds it can use.
If it were a country, California would be the 8th economy in the world and the 35th most populous.
At US$309 billion, Apple was the world's second most valuable brand in 2019. Amazon was first.
Scientists can identify individual zebras by "scanning" their stripes like a barcode.
The 'de-militarized' zone between North and South Korea is the world's most militarized zone.
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The woman who rented out her garage to Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 later became the CEO of YouTube.
YouTube’s current CEO is Susan Wojcicki.
Cambridge University used the first webcam.
Through this webcam, they watched a coffee maker. As a result, the user would not have to make unnecessary trips to an empty pot. One camera was where the coffee pot was in. Then, the receiving video would be set up in the user’s workstation.
The founder of the McAfee Antivirus program, John McAfee does not use his software.
He admitted in an interview in 2012 that his software was too annoying.
Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
Some people who designed Bill Gates’ famous private residential compound in Washington were James Cutler Architects and the architectural firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson (BCJ).
HP, Apple, and Microsoft all began developing their computers in a garage.
HP’s original garage, in particular, has been preserved as much as possible to tell the history of how the brand started. This was also made into a private museum in which tours are not allowed.
The word "Typewriter" is the longest word you can type using only one row of the keyboard.
Other words you could also try typing are pretty, power, and tweety.
The Tandy TRS-80 Model I computer radiates so much interference that you need to use an AM radio to play sounds from games.
Some of the games specifically so you could use this to play the sounds.
A computer as powerful as the human brain would be able to perform 38,000 trillion operations per second.
This machine would be able to hold more than 3580 terabytes of memory.
The Sasser worm mainly targets computers running on Microsoft OS and exploits a vulnerable network port.
This was mainly used in Microsoft XP operating systems. This worm could download a patch from Microsoft and infect the system. Once it had open a port of vulnerability, it deletes itself from the device so that no one can trace it.
John Lasseter promoted computer animation. They fired him for it.
Before he became the CEO of Pixar, John Lasseter was very keen on the idea of computer animation. After that, he went on to work for LucasFilm which produced a groundbreaking film with the use of CGI. After some time, he later returned to Disney and became the new CEO of the Pixar company.
Three students once installed keystroke loggers onto their teacher's computers to hack and sell grades to students.
Through the loggers, they stole test answers and sold them to other students on campus. School authorities found the spyware during a routine check-up of campus computers. As a result, the students were later sent to prison.
The United States Air Force used the first transistor computer.
Engineers from Bell Labs built the first computer without vacuum tubes. They called it TRADIC. TRADIC stands for Transistorized Digital Computer. This machine was only three cubic feet.
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1 out of 8 people in the United States met online.
These people went on to later marry each other.
92% of the world's currency exists only on computers.
Only about 8-10% of the world’s currency is physical money. The rest is in online banking, in-network currencies, etc.
Mary Kenneth Keller is the first woman from the U.S. to earn a PHD in Computer Science
She was able to meet this honor in 1965. In addition, She also had a background in Mathematics and Physics studies before receiving her Ph.D.
The average Bugatti customer has about 84 cars, 3 jets and one yacht.
Alien hand syndrome is a disorder that causes one's hand to move without being aware or having control over it.
Guy Fawkes is the reason guys are called "guys".