A single 1976 $4.01 cheque from (and signed by) Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has been sold at auction for a whopping $46,063. 

On November 9th 2004, the well-known web-browser ‘Firefox’ was released, although it had earlier been called something entirely different altogether.

Around a thousand years before electronics, a monk called Poppo was asked to prove his faith, because Sweyn Forkbeard was having doubts about his baptism.

Around this time 22 years ago on October 23 2001, Steve Jobs promised to give people “A Thousand Songs In Their Pocket”. His timing couldn’t have been better because at the time, Apple was primarily known for its computers and was struggling financially.

AI isn’t something that’s just emerged in the last couple of years. Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde had distinct personalities and if these names sound familiar it’s because they were the four ghosts that chased Pac-Man around his maze, each with different styles of trying to catch him, a kind of ‘AI’.

In days gone by, a Scottish person with a broken appendage might well have said their arm or leg was held in a ‘stooky’ (or ‘stookie’) which meant a plaster-cast.

But what on earth has that got to do with tech?

You probably know that Google was incorporated 25 years ago, in September 1998. But do you know some of the notable acquisitions that they’ve made since then? You may be surprised!

It’s hard to believe that this tech trivia article can start with the recent Canadian wildfires and move onto Julius Caesar fancying Cleopatra, but
the author has managed it.

Why was the Microsoft & Apple cooperation announcement met with a mixture of boos and applause from the audience?

Did know Marie Curie’s notebooks are still too contaminated to be considered safe to handle even now?