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Did you know digital data actually has physical weight?

In 1999, a 15-year-old hacker known online as “c0mrade” pulled off one of the most audacious cyber infiltrations in history.

One day, disaster struck: the system went down. Hard drives crashed, files became corrupted, and it looked like months of painstaking animation work might be lost.

End-of-Life is not a warning—it’s a sales tactic designed to push spending more money every 5 years

In 1994, Pizza Hut launched a simple website called “PizzaNet” that allowed customers to place orders over the internet.

This quirky fact is a good reminder that success isn’t just about the name—it’s about building something people genuinely want.

On July 16, 2010, Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom uploaded the app's first-ever image—and it wasn’t a sunset selfie or brunch pic.

In 1998, Google’s founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, offered to sell their fledgling search engine to Yahoo for just $1 million.

The charge? Driving without a license and running a stop sign.

In 1986, Apple released a full-on clothing and lifestyle line called the Apple Collection — and yes, it was as pastel and logo-heavy as you'd imagine.

Did you know firewalls are named after actual walls built to stop fires? In the digital world, they do the same thing — blocking dangerous traffic from spreading across networks. From basic packet filters in the '80s to today’s AI-powered security layers, firewalls have come a long way. We rounded up some fun facts — and broke down their full evolution!

In the digital world, "cookies" aren’t baked — they’re tracked.

Did you know the term "computer bug" actually comes from a real-life insect?

Today, if a digital ad gets a 1% click-through rate, it's considered a win. But in 1994, the very first online ad pulled off something almost unthinkable today: a 44% click-through rate.

Utilizing a single platform to manage multiple maintenance contracts is a transformative approach to IT management, and Third-Party Maintenance providers offer the tools to make this a reality.

Before Android powered billions of smartphones, it was actually designed for digital cameras!

Despite being over 160 years old, this technology is still widely used today.

The world’s first computer programmer was a woman—Ada Lovelace (bord Augusta Ada Byron)—and she wrote her first algorithm in the 1840s, long before computers even existed as we know them today.

In 1981, NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia launched into orbit - how much RAM did it use?