Fun and Interesting Facts about Technology

1. The Firefox logo isn’t a fox

It’s actually a red panda.

It’s a common misbelief that the Firefox logo is a fox (I mean… it is in the name), but it is actually a red panda!

2. Nintendo made playing cards

long before they made video games.

Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company. They didn’t make their first video game until 1978.

3. As of 2017, 2.1 millions people still use dial up.

A study done in 2017 found that 2.1 million people still use a dial up service. These customers are situated mainly in rural America where internet is unreliable and expensive.

4. There are approx. 3.5 billion Google Searches per day.

7.2 percent of this traffic comes from people searching the term ‘Google’.

5. Google’s First Tweet was in binary.

Google’s first tweet was in 2009, and it was gibberish to most. Translated from binary to English, it reads, “I’m feeling lucky”.

6. Motorola produced the first handheld mobile phone

and their first phone call was to their rival.

On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, made the first mobile telephone call from handheld subscriber equipment, placing a call to Dr. Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs (AT&T), his rival.

7. Apple were originally designing an apple shaped flip phone

before the first iPhone.

Before the original design for an iPhone, Apple patented a phone design in the shape of an actual apple. It was a flip phone that, when closed, would look like the Apple logo.

8. Nokia used to sell toilet paper.

Before Nokia sold mobile phones, they manufactured a range of other items, such as; toilet paper, tires, computers, and other electronics.

9. More people have mobile phones than toilets.

Out of the 7.7 billion people in the world, more than 6 billion people have access to a mobile phone. Compared to only 4.5 billion people who have access to a working toilet.

10. Android holds 87% of the OS market share.

In 2019, The Android smartphone operating system accounts for 87% of the global market share, compared to Apple iOS which holds 13%.

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