25 Fun Tech Facts..

1. The first computer mouse was made of wood, invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964.
2. The first ever domain to be registered, symbolics.com is still in existence. 
3. Around the year 1500, Leonardo da Vinci sketched plans for a robot.
4. The word robot comes from the Czech "ROBOTA" in English, robota means to "Forced Labour".
5. The first ever VCR was the size of a piano, invented in 1956
6. The first alarm clock could only ring at one time of the day, 4:00am.
7.  Nov 30 is known as "Computer Security Day" in the tech world.
8. The word engineer comes from the Latin word "Ingeniare" which mean 'cleverness'.
9. Firefox web browser logo is actually a red panda, not a fox because the English word for the red panda is 'Firefox'.
10. On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel about 12.6 miles.
11. In 1822, Charles Babbage created the first computer.
12. 86% of people try to plug their USB devices upside down.
13. In mobile games, 60% of all revenue came from only 0.23% of people.
14. Amazon.com was previously known as cadabra.com.
15. In 1999, PayPal was voted as one of the top ten worst business ideas.
16. 97% of people type in random words on Google, just to see if they spelt it right.
17. The word "Android" means a human with a male robot appearance.
18. The Comic Sans font is widely known as the worlds most hated font.
19. The first commercial text message was sent in Dec 1992.
20. Technophobia is the fear of technology.
21. Around 20% of all youtube videos are music related.
22. Remember MySpace? well, it still has over 200 million registered users.
23. 60% of LinkedIn members have clicked one of their adverts.
24. The most expensive number ever sold was a mobile phone number, 666-6666, which was put up for auction and sold for $2.7 million!
25. Google's first ever Tweet on Twitter was in February 2009 and reads "I'm 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010". Translating from binary into English, this tweet says "I'm feeling lucky"