25 Things You Didn't Know About Tech & Media
- AOL began as an on-demand videogame service in 1983
- In 1983, the New York Times charged $12/mo for access to online content
- Steve Case was not AOL’s founder
- The New York Times was originally called the “New-York Daily Times”
- The New York Times didn’t print from August 10, 1978 to November 5, 1978.
- Printing the NYT costs twice as much as sending every subscriber a free Kindle
- Facebook was built in a week
- Facebook was originally a Hot Or Not for Harvard called Facemash
- Zuckerberg built Facebook without plans to make money
- Twitter was its founders second idea
- The Twitter founders paid back their investors after their first idea failed
- Yahoo was originally called “Jerry and David’s guide to the world wide web”
- Yahoo stands for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle”
- Yahoo raised just $33.8 million though its IPO
- Apple actually had three founders
- The first Apple computer cost $666.66
- There are nine states without Apple Stores
- “I’m feeling lucky” button costs Google $110 million per year
- Google was named after a typo
- Google was originally called “BackRub”
- The first company to buy and run an ad through Google’s automated auction business was a live mail-order lobster store
- Google tries to forecast which ads will get clicked on based on the day’s temperature
- The Washington Post has its own theme song
- Jeff Bezos’s father funded Amazon.com with a $300,000 check
- The first book sold by Amazon.com was titled: “Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought”
