The famous Windows start-up sound was composed using a Mac.
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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90% of people sit at their computer desk slouching, supporting their head with their left hand.
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In 1956, the IBM 350 hard disk drive had 3.75 MB of storage, weighed over 2000 lbs, had to be moved around with forklifts, and was delivered via large cargo airplanes.
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There is a Swedish religion called Kopimism whose sole tenet is that all knowledge should be available to everyone - and thus, using CTRL+C and CTRL+V are sacred acts.
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In 1989, a British company made a laptop with a graphical user interface, a 60 hour battery life, SSD storage, and a touchpad.
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IBM's Watson computer has 90 processors, 2,880 cores, 11,200 threads, 16 terabytes of RAM, and 4TB worth of data on its hard drive.
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The first webcam was used in 1991 by Cambridge researchers for checking the coffee pot without leaving their desks.
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