25 Things You Didn't Know About Technology.

25 Things You Didn't Know About Technology.

We all accept that technology is an awesome thing, and not minding that we have access to it so there is much tendency people often take it for granted which all know. using our cameras we take photos and share JPEGs with our colleagues, family, friends not minding how these JPEGs work or what it stands for, so long as it gets to the recipient and people be sure what do we care. We blown away by wonderful new websites with great graphics, often not minding to understand how HTML5 drives it. We type on QWERTY laptops and smartphones all day long, but why are the letters arranged like that?
 We use Siri, without appreciating that voice command was an evolution of Alexander Graham Bell's Dictaphone.

 Here, we would highlight one thing you probably didn't know, and there's more where that came from — keep date with us for the full story of that tech term.


    1. Designer Jonathan Gay's 1996 product, Future Splash Animator, later became Adobe Flash, currently a platform that

supports the next generation of interactive web tools, including HTML5.

    2. JavaScript was first created by Brendan Eich at Netscape in 1995; it was nicknamed Mocha during development, and

ultimately named JavaScript to piggyback on the popularity of Java (another programming language).

    3. In 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto released the first Bitcoin client and issued the first Bitcoins.

    4. Broadband is defined by various standards as being capable of transmitting data at 1.5 or 2 Megabits (Mbits) per

second — this type of speed is necessary for streaming high definition video, playing online games and sending and

receiving large amounts of data.

    5. Siri, do you know the history of voice command? Back in the 1870s, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, and

Alexander Graham Bell and two associates worked on a “Dictaphone.”

    6. Web Hyper Text Application Technology Working Group (WHAT) member Ian Hickson wrote and released the first draft of

HTML5 in 2008.

    7. The first GPS satellite was launched in 1978, and the full constellation of 24 became operational in 1995.

    8. Steve Wilhite of Compuserve debuted the GIFs in June 1987. Bet he didn't foresee this.

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    9. Phillip Katz invented the ZIP file in 1986, and it was first implemented with the PKZip program for Katz’s company,

PKWare, Inc.

    10. Emoticons were reportedly first used on September 19, 1982, by Scott Fahlman, a computer scientist at Carnegie

Mellon University. He created a happy face and a sad face with a colon, a hyphen and parentheses.

    11. QWERTY Keyboards were designed by Christopher Sholes, who invented the typewriter in 1868. However, alternative

keyboard layouts, like the Dvorak and the Capewell, abound.

    12. When it comes to Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGS), World of Warcraft is top dog. The game

has more than 10 million active players and has generated billions of dollars in revenue for owner Activision Blizzard

since it launched in late 2004.

    13. The IBM Simon was the first phone with a touchscreen, released in 1992. It’s referred to as the first

“smartphone,” though the term was not yet coined.

    14. Style sheet languages have existed since the 1980s, but the standardization and implementation of Cascading Style

Sheets, or CSS in 1996 solidified it as one of the go-to languages for web development.

    15. Bluetooth was named for a Danish king who united disparate territories.

    16. TCP/IP — which allows computers to connect to one another and for applications to send data back and forth — was

originally developed by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, while under contract at the U.S. Department of Defense.

    17. Comic Sans was designed by former Microsoft font designer Vincent Connare, who also created other notable fonts,

such as Trebuchet and some of the Wingdings.

    18. Theodore George Paraskevakos patented the basic smartphone concept in 1974.

    19. The potential of MP3 was realized when the a capella song “Tom’s Diner” by Suzanne Vega [Spotify link] could be

coded, compressed and replayed without distorting Vega’s voice, says audio engineer Karlheinz Brandenberg.

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    20. Wi-Fi isn't short for anything — it was one of 10 brand name options from consultancy Interbrand.

    21. Text Messaging, or SMS, was developed in the Franco-German GSM cooperation in 1984 by Friedhelm Hillebrand and

Bernard Ghillebaert.

    22.  In 1910, Nathaniel Baldwin invented headphones in the kitchen of his Utah home.

    23.The first computer mouse was wooden.

    24. More than 3 billion USB products are shipped every year.

    25. JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group, the professional group that developed the JPEG standard.


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