Information Technology—If you use it right, It could give you power and privacy…
Information Technology, commonly abbreviated as IT has a multitude of applications that touch the life of common men from day to day basis. Being the largest state of India, Rajasthan shows great potential for growth in business, industrial and education sectors. Consequently, Rajasthan government observes 21st March 2017 as ‘Rajasthan IT Day’ every year.
Since it’s IT Day today, here are 10 uber cool facts that you ought to know about IT.
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- Email services existed before World Wide Web
If you don’t believe us, you ought to check an interesting clip on YouTube that goes by the name “How to send an Email Database—1984”. The clip demonstrates how users used email for networking. The computers in the 1980s used a rotary telephone with the computer that was connected to a service called Micronet (it was the mother server of WWW). URLs didn’t exist then and the internet services used numbered webpages for this purpose. For sending mails, the webpage number was 7776.
- Were you employed in the 1990s, you could’ve registered domains for free.
Since no one was actually familiar with the potential of the internet for digital marketing, domain registration was free until 1994. From 1995 onwards, a company named Network Solutions started charging $100 fee for two years of registration. 30% of the money went to a charity named National Science Foundation.
- 95% of the total Global Currency is Digital
With Indian government pitching for digital currency post-demonetisation, you must know that just 8% of the world uses the physical money, India being one of them. Rest 92% banks on digital and plastic currency. Out of all other forms of digital currency, cryptocurrency bitcoin is the most popular.
- Before Mobiles, it was the scientific calculator that used QWERTY pad.
Before laptops, computers, and smartphones were installed with the QWERTY pad, it was the scientific calculator that featured this keyboard. They were later banned in exam halls since they were comparable to computers.
Other than these, there are plenty of more facts about Information Technology that remain undiscovered. Stay tuned for more updates on Rajasthan IT day.
