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The Bitcoin whitepaper was published in 2008 by a person or group called Satoshi Nakamoto.
The document describing Bitcoin, titled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, was published in 2008 by…
Google was originally called BackRub.
Google was originally called BackRub, a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University in…
Linux was created by Linus Torvalds in 1991.
The Linux kernel was created by Linus Torvalds, a Finnish student, in 1991, when he was 21 years old. He made the…
Netflix started as a streaming service.
Netflix was founded in 1997 as a DVD rental service by mail. Streaming was only launched in 2007, ten years later. In…
HTML was invented by Bill Gates.
HTML was invented by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1991, together with the World Wide Web. Bill Gates is the co-founder…
The world's smallest programmable robot is the size of a grain of salt.
The robot measures only 200 by 300 micrometres wide and 50 micrometres thick, smaller than a grain of salt. It can…
ARPANET was the precursor of the internet.
ARPANET was the first computer network to use the TCP/IP protocol, created in the United States in 1969 by the…
HTML was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991.
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) was created by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1991, together with the World Wide Web. It…
Google uses an algorithm called PageRank to rank search results.
PageRank, developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1996, evaluates the importance of a web page based on the number…
The IBM Simon was the first smartphone in history.
The IBM Simon, launched in 1994, is considered the first smartphone in history because it combined phone, diary, fax…
The transistor was invented in 1947.
The transistor was invented in 1947 at Bell Labs by John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley. They received…
Apple's first logo showed a bitten apple.
Apple's first logo, designed by Ronald Wayne in 1976, showed Isaac Newton under an apple tree, with a ribbon and the…
Facebook was called TheFacebook at the beginning.
When it was launched in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and Harvard colleagues, the site was called TheFacebook. In 2005, the…
Amazon started as an electronics store.
Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 as an online bookstore. Bezos chose books because they were easy to store…
The world's first electro-photo-quantum integrated chip system was developed by a European team.
The chip was developed by a Chinese team and announced in the journal Nature Electronics. The system integrates…
The world's smallest autonomous robots are smaller than a grain of salt.
Researchers at Penn and Michigan universities created programmable autonomous robots only 200 by 300 by 50…
Current artificial intelligence already possesses independent intellectual curiosity, similar to that of a child.
Experts, including Turing Award winner Robert Tarjan, state that current AI still lacks independent intellectual…
The QWERTY keyboard layout was designed to prevent mechanical jams.
By separating the most commonly used letter pairs in the English language, the creator of the QWERTY layout…
The first hard disk drive, released in 1956, weighed over a ton.
The IBM 305 RAMAC was the first commercial computer with a hard disk drive. Its storage system weighed about a ton…
The first webcam was invented at Cambridge University in 1991 simply to monitor the coffee levels in a break room.
Researchers were tired of walking to the break room only to find the coffee pot empty, so they created a camera that…
The term robot was introduced to the public by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his 1920 play, derived from a word meaning forced labor.
The word derives from the Czech term robota, which refers to serfdom or compulsory labor, reflecting the nature of…
The first computer mouse, invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1964, was carved out of wood and had two metal wheels.
This early prototype, dubbed the X-Y position indicator for a display system, was a wooden block with a button and…
The first telephone installed in the White House was in 1879, during the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes.
The device was installed in the telegraph room and its number was simply one, as there were very few telephone…
The QR code was invented in 1994 by a Japanese company called Denso Wave to track automobile parts.
The need to encode more information than traditional barcodes allowed led to the development of this two-dimensional…