The first recorded music was made possible by Edison's phonograph in 1877 — 'Mary Had a Little Lamb.'

The first webcam was invented to check if a coffee pot in a Cambridge lab was full without walking downstairs.

Vulcanization — treating rubber with sulfur — transformed a sticky, temperature-sensitive material into durable industrial rubber.

The printing press was invented around 1440 by Gutenberg — within 50 years, over 20 million books had been printed.

The first computer virus was created in 1983 as an experiment — it spread via floppy disks and was called 'Elk Cloner.'

Solid-state drives (SSDs) use flash memory with no moving parts, making them faster and more durable than hard disk drives.

Approximately 80% of information stored on computers is in English.

The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com in 1985.

The average Google search uses about 0.3 watt-hours of electricity.