1000 Totally Useless Fun Facts and Trivia About Tech & Digital Oddities You’ll Never Need to Know (1.000 Totally Useless Fun Facts and Trivia You’ll

1000 Totally Useless Fun Facts and Trivia About Tech & Digital Oddities You’ll Never Need to Know (1.000 Totally Useless Fun Facts and Trivia You’ll

Do you know why the very first webcam was created just to watch a coffee pot? Or why the “save” icon is still a floppy disk that half the Digital Age has never touched? Or how a random software bug accidentally gave us one of the strangest video game facts in history? Welcome to 1.000 Totally Useless Fun Facts and Trivia About Tech & Digital Oddities You’ll Never Need to Know —a gloriously nerdy crash course in the side of technology they definitely didn’t cover in Computer Science class. This is Technology Trivia for people who live online, miss the screech of dial-up, love Geek Culture , and secretly want to be the most interesting person in any group chat. Inside, you’ll time-travel through Internet History , from the weird early days of the World Wide Web and 90s Web Design (blink tags, marquee text, and “Under Construction” GIFs) to today’s slick digital culture ruled by social media and viral memes . You’ll uncover the real stories behind legendary easter eggs, hidden dev jokes, launch-day disasters, and the glitches that accidentally reshaped entire industries. Take a nostalgic detour into retro gaming , where cartridges needed blowing, arcades swallowed pocket money, and video game facts sound made up. Learn why the most famous cheat code in history—up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A—became a universal secret handshake. Explore urban legends like cursed cartridges, haunted cabinets, and the mythical “Polybius” machine that supposedly brainwashed players. We’ll also lift the hood on coding secrets and programming lore: from the first actual moth that inspired the term “computer bug” to the software bugs that crashed rockets, tanked stock markets, and glitched characters into immortality. Along the way, you’ll meet mischievous devs who hid Easter Eggs deep inside operating systems, games, and apps—little winks from the people behind the code. On the hardware and business side, you’ll wander through the strange evolution of gadgets , doomed devices, and hilariously over-hyped “next big things.” Trace Tech History from lab benches to Silicon Valley garages, where startups grew into Tech Giants —and others burst in the Dot Com Bubble with nothing to show but truly cursed branding. Discover the office pranks, failed prototypes, and odd traditions that humanize the logos we see every day. For security junkies, there’s a whole realm of hacker lore and cybersecurity : teenage prodigies poking at government systems, worms that shut down half the internet, and legendary breaches that started with nothing more than a bad password. You’ll see how innovation and chaos go hand in hand in the connected world. And of course, we can’t talk about the Digital Age without artificial intelligence and robotics . From ancient mechanical “robots” that tricked royalty to awkward chatbots, warehouse automatons, and AIs that hallucinate nonsense, this section shows how our smartest machines still act wonderfully weird. Every page is bite-sized and bingeable—perfect as a bathroom browser, desk-side distraction, or coffee-table curiosity. Open anywhere and you’ll instantly land on a fact about tech nostalgia , digital culture , video game facts , or some gloriously pointless bit of technology trivia you’ll be dying to repeat. Whether you’re a dev, a designer, a hardware hoarder, or just someone who lives online, this book turns the background noise of tech into a rolling highlight reel of “wait, really?” moments. You won’t need any of this information—but you’ll be very glad you have it.