What are 5 Facts about Technology?




The world is constantly progressing with the development of technology day by day. Every day we get news of some new technology. In this modern world, we are fully dependent upon technology. For example, to convey a message we text each other, and to find a cab to travel we book it through OLA, or Uber, for exam preparation we use YouTube.

There are never-ending examples of how dependent we are on technology. Unlike before modernization, there was a time when people would wait for several days to receive that one letter from their relative or anyone, and because of this they used to have high patience levels. But nowadays, the patience level of people is so low, that they can only wait for 3-4 hours maximum, then they will assume that the other person is ignoring them and they get upset. This leads to miscommunication among them.

Now, as we have established the fact how important technology is for us. This blog will tell you 5 facts about the technology.

5 Interesting Technology Facts

  • The popular expression “In a Jiffy” is not just an expression it was a technological fact. Earlier the word “Jiffy” referred to the computer’s clock cycle which consists of roughly 10 milliseconds.

Hence, “in a jiffy” was considered a unit of time. But in this modern world people now just use it as just slang as they don’t even know how it was invented. 

This phrase was also used in the scientific world by scientists. For example, in physics, a jiffy may refer to as time is taken by an apple to reach the ground from a tree branch. 

  • When do you think World Wide Web (WWW) was invented? It was invented in 1989. We may think that WWW is the oldest. But no, Email was invented a decade before World Wide Web. 

In the year 1978 Email was invented. The first spam email was sent that year. That was the origin of receiving spam emails which continues to date. According to a recent survey, 47% of email traffic was spam.

  • Do you know the average blink of a person per minute? According to research, we blink 20 times a minute. But the fun fact is when we start our PC we only blink 7-8 times isn’t it shocking?

And this is the reason for our dry eyes in front of the screen. 

  • Bill Hewlett and David Packard are the inventors of the brand HP. But there is an interesting story behind the invention of this name. 

How do you think the name HP was invented? It was invented by a coin toss. The name could be based on the name of the owners but to make it more unique and memorable there was a conflict on whose name should come first. So, to avoid this they ended up flipping the coin.

  • We are already familiar with the term Robot. We have even invented AI robots and have been using them a lot. But the term robot in reality means “Forced Labour”. Isn’t it weird that in reality, we fight for those who are forced labour but, in the technical world we are creating our own forced labour?

Summing it up

So, this blog was full of interesting surprises in the technical world. And there are many more to go. You should try to find more interesting facts which could be fascinating. You never know when any of these facts might help you out in some situations.

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