Technology brings us new things every day, including what is easy to believe and what is strange, brought to you 11 technological facts you may see strange . 

  1/ Change the font used to provide print ink :

Lines full of engravings, ornaments and large-scale, consume more inks than in simple medium-sized lines.

2/ The existence of e-mail web-based international network "WWW" :

The e-mail appeared in 1984, and the service was done via a micronet server. There were no links but page numbers, e-mail was 7776, and the public Internet was launched in 1991.

3/ QWERTY is designed to slow the writing process : 

To avoid the failure of buttons, which occurs when writing very quickly and the resulting errors, and there is another theory says it was faster to write and send cables.

4/ 92% of 92% of the currency used in the world is digital currency :

Big dealings, deep Internet transactions and even large bank transactions are all done electronically, so it makes sense that the official currency ratio is 80% of the volume of currency traded around the world.

5/ Domain name registration was free until year 1995 :

Domain registration was free Until the company "Network Solutions" got the right to charge for domain name registration, the fee was $ 100 for domain name registration for two years, before declining in 1997 to $ 70.

6/ A movie has been banned For Oscar-winning for The Best Visual Effects Award for Digital Effects :

In 1982, "Tron" starring Jeff Bridges of the Oscar for Best Visual Effects was disqualified, because the Commission thought the crew had deceived them by using digital effects in the film.

7 / The first hard disk for an IBM computer was weighing a ton :

In 1956, IBM's "RAMAC" hard drive, made up of magnetic disks and a movable header for data entry and writing, weighed a full ton and carried 5MB of data.

8/ A computer mouse is named by this name because the wire comes out of it like the tail of a mouse :

The first name of the mouse was an X & Y display system, but Douglas Engelbert, co-designed with Bill Engels, said it reminded him of rodents because the wire came out of it like this, and was commercially called a mouse .

9/ In 1936, the Russians designed a computer Works With  water : 

Before the Transistor era, the computer system was more visible to the eye and needed a direct source of energy. Vladimir Lukyanov designed a water-card computer with a complex design of water-filled pipes.

10/ Wikipedia needs an army of bots to follow all the amendments :

Because it allows anyone to subscribe and edit content, there are millions of daily content changes that exceed human capacity to follow.

11/ In 1999, a teenager was forced NASA to shut down computers for three weeks : 

Between August and October 1999, 15-year-old Jonathan James used his skills to penetrate the US Threat Control Agency, including NASA's main temperature control code.

What he did forced NASA to shut down all its computers to fix the problem and was convicted at the age of 16.

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