Technology

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

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The PlayStation 2 was the first video game system to use DVD technology.

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Link and Samus were originally supposed to be characters in the Wii version of Marvel: Ultimate alliance.

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Motorola's first product was a battery eliminator in 1928.

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Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a typical Qwerty keyboard.

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Jeopardy mentioned Nintendo's Virtual Boy under the "What's Hot" category in 1997. Joel got it right

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40M photos are uploaded to Instagram per day

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For about $2200 you can get a rose gold 64GB iPad2 and for about $2400 you can get it in platinum.

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Each anniversary, a Microsoft employee is expected to provide one pound of M&Ms for every year they've worked

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Mario was actually the villain in the 8 bit Donkey Kong game whom abused Donkey Kong before he escaped.

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The Facebook "Like" button was originally planned to be the "Awesome" button

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PSY's Gangnam Style has become the first video in Internet history to hit 1 Billion views.

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JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group, the professional group that developed the JPEG standard.

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Mario was an Italian landlord for Miyamoto when he chose to give Nintendo’s icon character a name

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The first transatlantic broadcast of a TV signal happened between France and a TV station in Maine, USA

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One man created Mario, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, Star Fox, F-Zero, Pikmin, and the Wii Sports series of games

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Singing birthday cards have more processing power than the combined computers of the Allied Forces in World War II.

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Facebook is blue because Mark Zuckerberg is colorblind

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Thomas Martel, had his fingers surgically altered to make it easier for him to type on his iPhone

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Teens spend an average of 31 hours a week online.

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Sony released the first e-reader in 1992, 15 years before Amazon came out with the Kindle