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April 27, 1791
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*Samuel Morse was a good painter.
*He invented the telegraph and changed the way that the world communicated.
*He married Sarah Griswold in 1848, had four children, and died of pneumonia on April 2, 1872.
*When a child, his parents were comitted on his education.
*He graduated from Yale University in 1810.
Source:
https://www.biography.com/inventor/samuel-morse
*Samuel Morse had interest in electricity.
Source:
https://www.thoughtco.com/biography-of-samuel-morse-1992165
December 26, 1791
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*He is known for the contributions on the mechanical computer and he is often called the Father of Computing.
Source:
https://www.biography.com/inventor/charles-babbage
*He was a mathematician, philosopher, inventor, and mechanical engineer.
*When he was a child he had went to many schools and had many tutors and he ended up loving math.
*Charles Babbage was married to Georgiana Whitmore in 1814.
*He also contributed to the invention to the pilot placed in front of engines.
Source:
https://www.biographyonline.net/scientists/inventors/charles-babage.html
*The education that Charles Babbage had were University of Cambridge, Trinity College, and Peterhouse College.
Source:
Wikipedia [Note: Information from Wikipedia might not be true.]
March 3, 1847
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*He was an inventor, scientist, and teacher of the deaf.
*His accomplishments are the invention of the telephone and the fixing of the phonograph.
Source:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-Graham-Bell
*His wife and mother were deaf.
*He married Mable Hubbard in July 11, 1877.
*He was good at solving problems since around a child.
*The place that he was born in is known as the ¨Athens of the North¨ because of its rich culture of arts and science.
Source:
https://www.biography.com/inventor/alexander-graham-bell
June 16, 1911
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*Around the time that IBM started, there were no computers at the time. Instead they made typewriters.
*They invented things such as the hard drive, DRAM, the UPC bar code, and the magnetic stripe card.
*The company makes and sells software, computer hardware, basic physical and organizational structures or facilities, and consulting services.
Source:
https://kids.kiddle.co/IBM
*IBM has made machines that are able to compete in chess with some of the smartest people in the world.
Source:
http://szlifestyle.com/sz/2015/03/15/12-interesting-facts-about-ibm-who-might-not-know/
*Their computers has helped the first man on the moon.
*The things that they invented has changed an aspect of our PC industry,
Source:
https://www.thrillist.com/tech/ibm-trivia-history-and-things-you-didn-t-know
February 15, 1946
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*The ENIAC was designed by two people named John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert.
*The ENIAC was considered the first computer because the ABC, although it was a computer made before the ENIAC, wasn´t programmable.
*Because the ENIAC was made from vacuum tubes, it broke most of the time.
*The ENIAC was the size of a large room.
*The ENIAC was shut down on October 2, 1955.
*Programming the ENIAC was hard,
1972
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*The @ symbol that was used rarely but after email was created, it was used way more than before.
*The first email sent in space was in 1991.
Source:
https://pandorafms.com/blog/email-facts/
*Emails can make you money by using email marketing.
Source:
https://flow-e.com/blog/email-facts/
*Most emails in the world are spam and most of them come from China.
*Billions of emails are sent per day with about 2.8 million coming per second.
Source:
https://blog.zerobounce.net/2019/12/06/15-facts-know-email/
*Email is a system where you send messages electronically.
Source:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/e-mail
April 1, 1976
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*Steve Jobs sold his car and Steve Wozniak sold his scientific calculator to provide money for the new company.
*Apple's first computer did not have things such as a case, monitor, or keyboard.
*Apple surpassed Exxon as the most valuable company in 2011.
*Apple has a patent on slide-to-unlock feature and it once sued Samsung for using it.
*Bill Gates once invested $150 million to save Apple from bankruptcy.
*Apple ships their products via air.
Source:
https://www.spinfold.com/33-amazing-facts-about-apple-inc/
September 4, 1998
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*Google's first office was a rented garage.
*When Google launched Google Images search in 2001, it had 250 million images for users to see.
*When Google went public, it was valued around as how much General Motors was.
Source:
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/246477
*The early version of Google could process about 30-50 images per second, and now it can over millions.
*Google once wanted to sell their search engine system but after they were declined and time has passed, they don´t want to sell it anymore because they are a huge company.
Source:
https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2015/04/15/google-facts
*The company's name was misspelled, they tried to use the word Googool but they spelled it Google.
Source:
https://www.whoishostingthis.com/blog/2014/12/18/google-facts/
December, 1998
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*eBay bought the PayPal company early for $1.5 billion.
Source:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/7-fun-facts-paypal-pypl-161704951.html
*PayPal is an online finanicial service that allows you to buy/pay for stuff via a secure internet account.
Source:
https://www.pocket-lint.com/apps/news/138438-what-is-paypal-and-how-does-it-work
*PayPal supports many currencies, it supports over 26 currencies.
*PayPal has offices all over the world.
*Many PayPal users are likely to recommend it to their friends.
*The company has went public 2 times.
Source:
https://www.ewebmarketing.com.au/blog/paypal-facts/
February 14, 2005
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*Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim created YouTube and they did it when they worked at PayPal.
*Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006.
*YouTube has over 10,000 advertising partners.
*More than 1.9 billion users visit YouTube each month.
*YouTube has more HD quality videos than other online video sites.
*In 2012, they had the first video by an artist to reach 1 billion views.
Source:
https://www.shoutmeloud.com/interesting-youtube-facts.html