Top 10 tech facts you might not have known-

Technology is the use of tools and knowledge to make things easier, better, or more efficient and today we’re gonna talk about top 10 tech facts that you might not have known, so let’s start without wasting anymore time.

1. The first computer mouse was made of wood: The original computer mouse, developed by Douglas Engelbart in 1964, was made from wood.

2. The world’s first computer programmer was a woman: Ada Lovelace is considered the world’s first computer programmer, as she wrote an algorithm for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine in the 1840s.

3. There are more devices connected to the internet than there are people on Earth: With the proliferation of IoT (Internet of Things) devices, there are now more internet-connected devices than there are humans.

4. The term “bug” in computer programming originated from a real insect: In 1947, computer scientist Grace Hopper found a moth stuck in a relay of the Harvard Mark II computer, and this incident is often cited as the origin of the term “bug” in programming.

5. The first webcam was used to monitor a coffee pot: In 1991, researchers at Cambridge University set up the first webcam to monitor the status of a coffee pot to avoid wasted trips to an empty pot.

6. Amazon was originally an online bookstore: Amazon, now one of the world’s largest e-commerce companies, started as an online bookstore in 1994.

7. The world’s fastest supercomputer can perform over 442 quadrillion calculations per second: Fugaku, a supercomputer in Japan, held the record for being the fastest in the world.

8. The QWERTY keyboard layout was designed to slow typists down: The QWERTY layout, which is the standard for most keyboards, was designed to prevent early typewriters from jamming by spacing out commonly used letters.

9. The Apollo 11 mission used less computing power than a modern smartphone: The computer on the Apollo 11 mission, which landed the first humans on the moon, had significantly less processing power than today’s smartphones.

10. Every minute, 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube: YouTube is a massive platform with an incredible amount of content being uploaded constantly.

I hope you found these tech facts interesting and perhaps learned something new! Thank you.