Today I learned

Google was officially founded on September 4, 1998, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

Google began as a Stanford University research project called BackRub, named after its analysis of website “backlinks.”

The Windows 95 startup sound was created on a Mac.

The first commercial hard drive stored about 5 MB.

IBM introduced it in 1956, and the equipment weighed more than a tonne.

You spend roughly one-third of your life asleep.

For someone who lives to 81, that’s about 27 years.

"yeah, nah" was officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary in June 2026.

Used to express hesitancy, dissent, or a polite refusal (effectively meaning "yes, but..." or a soft "no"

In 2026, the year 2000 is further behind us than 2050 is ahead of us.

Quarantine originally meant “forty days.” During plague outbreaks, ships and travellers could be isolated for that long before entering a port.

The number 40 in Italian is quaranta.

Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object. It left the Sun’s protective bubble in 2012 and entered interstellar space—but it has not left the Milky Way.

NASA says Voyager 1 will reach one light-day from Earth on 18 November 2026: about 16.094 billion miles (25.902 billion kilometres) away. For perspective, the Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years across, so Voyager is still only a tiny distance into our galaxy.

Computer engineer Ray Tomlinson sent the first network email between two computers connected to ARPANET.

Keeping a lithium battery between roughly 20% and 80% can help it last longer.

The last 20% charges slowly because the battery switches from fast constant-current charging to safer constant-voltage charging, gradually reducing the current to prevent overheating and damage.

The “save” icon is based on a floppy disk.

Have you used a floppy disk? If you were born in the late 1990's you probably have never used one.

The first music video played on MTV was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles on August 1, 1981.

The #1 song in 1990 was "Hold On" by Wilson Phillips.

It's an inspiring song about not giving up, keep trying and thing's will work out.