Tech In Time

6 Things You Didn't Know About Ancient Technology

  1. In 1999, people thought that all the computers -and technology- would be destroyed because they were designed to go up to 1999 not the year 2000 (actually there was no such thing as 'The Millennium Bug'.
  2. The first coin operated video games were introduced in the 1970s with titles such as, 'Computer Space' and 'Pong' gaining popularity.
  3. Building for the first computer started in 1943 and was completed in 1946. Computers are on the market for the 1970s, after the invention of transitors, integrated circuits ands microphones.
  4. A Red Panda is an animal native to the Himalayas and Southwestern China. The English word for Red Panda is Firefox which is where the browser gets its name from - so the Firefox logo is actually a Red Panda!
  5. Did you know that Google hires goats out from a company called 'California Grazing' to help them cut the grass and bushes?
  • Did you know that Skype is banned from the Chinese public?
  • The xbox 360 was first released on the 22nd of November 2005 and is Microsofts second video game console.
  • Microsoft's third console was the xbox one whitch was released on the 22nd of November 2013.

    • Apple

  • Did you know that Apple's first ever computer was no more than a circuit board?
  • The very first Apple logo features Sir Isaac Newton standing under an apple tree about to get hit by an apple.

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