Tech Trivia
Here are five technology facts we bet you didn’t know:
1 160 billion emails are sent daily, 97 per cent of which are spam.
2 The first public cellphone call was made on April 3, 1973 by Martin Cooper, the then general manager of Motorola’s Communications Systems Division.
3 MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. It is a standard means of sending digitally encoded information about music between electronic devices, often between synthesisers and computers.
4 Time magazine named the computer its ‘Man of the Year’ in 1982.
5 JPEG, the most common file format for photographic images stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group and the files are often referred to as jpg files.
