The evolution of the human race goes pari-passu with the evolution of technology. Literally every year, the tech space is bombarded with new cool and innovative products and ideas. To keep up with the relentless march of technology, here are some quick cool facts to know:
- The number of emails sent per day in 2017 is around 269 billion! That’s almost 2.4 million emails per second.
- The average office worker receives 121 emails per day.
- The least effective day to send an email is Friday.
- Every minute, 100 hours of video is uploaded on YouTube.
- There are 3.5 billion Google searches per day and this has tripled since 2007.
- Changing your font can save printer ink.
- The QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow you down. If you want to type faster, try the Dvorak Keyboard.
- Only 8% of the world’s currency is physical money. 92% of currency is digital.
- In 1956, 5 megabytes of data weighed one ton.
- More people own a mobile phone than a toothbrush.
- Spotify has 170 million monthly active users and 75 million paying subscribers.
- Microsoft was originally called Micro-soft; they removed the hyphen in 1981.
- Microsoft turned down an offer to purchase YouTube for $500 million in 2006.
- The internet is over 10000 days old. You can view the live counter here.