Technology Facts

A 2,000-year-old bronze device is considered the world's first known analog computer.

The computer that guided Apollo astronauts to the Moon had a tiny fraction of the memory of a modern computer.

The @ symbol in email addresses was chosen because it was rarely used for anything else.

The first documented computer 'bug' was an actual moth.

The first computer mouse had a wooden shell.

The first text message ever sent simply read 'Merry Christmas.'

The world's first website is still online today.

The first commercial hard disk drive weighed over a ton and stored just 5 megabytes.

The internet and the World Wide Web are not the same thing, and the internet came first.

Wi-Fi doesn't actually stand for anything.