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The average age of a video game player in the United States is 35 years old.
Approximately 4 million blog posts are published every day worldwide.
The first emoticon used in a digital message was :-) typed by Scott Fahlman in 1982.
The first video uploaded to YouTube was titled 'Me at the zoo' and was posted by co-founder Jawed Karim.
The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004.
The Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner has sold over 40 million units since its launch in 2002.
There are approximately 1.13 billion websites on the internet, but less than 200 million are active.
The first commercial GPS device for consumers was released in 1989 and cost $3,000.
The PlayStation was originally developed as a CD-ROM add-on for the Super Nintendo before Sony made it a standalone console.
Approximately 95% of all music downloaded online is done so illegally according to industry estimates.
The Mars Curiosity rover sings 'Happy Birthday' to itself every year on the anniversary of its landing.
The first known use of the @ symbol in email was by Ray Tomlinson in 1971 to separate usernames from computer names.
Over 500 million tweets are sent per day.
The first GIF ever created was an image of a rotating globe, made in 1987 by Steve Wilhite at CompuServe.
The original name for Windows was Interface Manager before it was changed prior to launch.
The average person will spend about 7 years of their life looking at a phone screen.
There are more transistors in a modern smartphone processor than there are stars in the Milky Way.
The first handheld mobile phone call was made by Martin Cooper of Motorola on April 3, 1973.
The total amount of data created, captured, and consumed globally in 2020 was estimated at 64 zettabytes.
The first webcam was created at the University of Cambridge to monitor a coffee pot so researchers could avoid walking to an empty pot.
The average lifespan of a smartphone is about 2.7 years before it is replaced.
Virtual assistants like Siri use natural language processing and machine learning to understand and respond to voice commands.
The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 AM because it was designed for its inventor's own schedule.
The world generates about 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day.
Netflix was originally a DVD rental-by-mail service launched in 1997.
There are more than 2 billion gamers worldwide.
The first 1-gigabyte hard drive was released in 1980, weighed 550 pounds, and cost $40,000.
Bluetooth technology is named after Harald Bluetooth, a 10th-century Danish king who united warring factions.
The internet weighs about the same as a strawberry — roughly 50 grams — based on the electrons that carry all its data.
Moore's Law predicted that the number of transistors on a microchip would double approximately every two years, and it has held roughly true for decades.
The world's first website, created at CERN, was about the World Wide Web project itself.
Google processes over 8.5 billion searches per day.
The first video game console, the Magnavox Odyssey, was released in 1972.
There are approximately 4.66 billion active internet users worldwide.
The original iPod could hold about 1,000 songs and had a 5-gigabyte hard drive.
The first ever email spam was sent in 1978 to 393 people on ARPANET, advertising a new computer model.
Amazon started as an online bookstore in Jeff Bezos's garage in 1994.
The average person checks their phone about 96 times per day.
The term 'bug' in computing originated when a moth was found stuck in a relay of the Harvard Mark II computer in 1947.
The first commercial cell phone, the Motorola DynaTAC, cost $3,995 when it launched in 1983.
Over 6 million text messages are sent every minute worldwide.
The first domain name ever registered was symbolics.com on March 15, 1985.
About 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every single minute.
The first digital camera was built by Kodak engineer Steven Sasson in 1975 and weighed 8 pounds.
South Korea has the fastest average internet speed in the world.
The entire text content of Wikipedia in English would fit on a 22-gigabyte flash drive.
The Apollo 11 guidance computer had less processing power than a modern pocket calculator.
Wi-Fi does not stand for 'Wireless Fidelity' — it is simply a brand name created by a marketing firm.
The first ever YouTube video was uploaded on April 23, 2005, titled 'Me at the zoo.'
Bitcoin's mysterious creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, is estimated to own about 1 million bitcoins but has never spent any.