Ubuntu is one of the more popular distributions of Linux. 
There are computers designed for Amish people, with selling points like “No internet, no video, no music”. The money comes from American tax revenue. Although GPS is free for the world to use, it costs $2 million per day to operate. In general, people tend to read as much as 10% slower from a screen than from paper. Q33 was the first plane to hit during 9/11 in 2001, when you type in Q33 in Microsoft’s Wingding’s font, a very sinister thing appears Q33. The Apple II had a hard drive of only 5 megabytes when it was launched in June 1977. Alaska is the only state in America that can be typed on one row of a traditional English QWERTY keyboard. It was first implemented in France, with Germany following shortly after. Credit card EMV chip technology has been around since 1986. The creators of the PNG file format wanted it to be pronounced as ‘ping’. A dentist named Alfred Southwick invented the electric chair. If you were to have your picture taken by the very first camera, you’d need to sit still for 8 hours. Using a hands-free device to talk on the phone while driving is shown to be equally or more dangerous than driving drunk. The television took 13 years and the iPod only took 3 years to reach a market audience of 50 million. The radio took 38 years to reach a market audience of 50 million. On 1 st April 2005, NASA pulled a prank telling the world that they had found water on Mars. The 30 th of November is known as “ Computer Security Day“. 
On an average work day, a typist’s fingers travel about 12.6 miles. The first ever VCR (Video Camera Recorder), which was made in 1956, was the size of a piano!. The average computer user blinks seven times a minute, the normal rate is twenty times per minute. You cannot reverse a Bitcoin transaction, or be forced to pay. CD’s (Compact discs) read from the inside to the outside edge, which is the reverse of how records work. This translates into forced labor, or work. The word robot comes from the Czech “ robota“. Bill Gates house was designed using a Macintosh Computer. The founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, was a college drop out. Google rents out goats from a company called California Grazing to help cut down the amount of weeds and brush at Google HQ!. The very first Apple logo featured Sir Isaac Newton sitting underneath a tree, with an apple about to hit his head. 
The PNG was invented as an alternative, and the company backed down.
In 1994, the company who had a patent on GIFs tried to charge a fee for using GIFS. The English word for red panda is ‘Firefox’ which is where the browser gets its name from – this means the Firefox logo is actually a red panda, not a fox!. Here’s a list of the top 100 technology facts for National Trivia Day:
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