Lesser-known facts about Facebook, Apple and Google

The three technology gaints Facebook, Apple and Google have changed our life. The social networking site Facebook let us connects to our friends, Apple have given many great products and Google has changed the way we search. This article will introduce you to some interesting facts about the technology giants, Facebook, Apple, and Google.

Facebook

Shout me loud says that, the most popular social networking website "Facebook" derived its name from the informal name for the book given by some American universities to the students at the start of academic session every year. The purpose is same; to help users to know each other and in turn build a network.

Original home page: The original home page before the total revamping in 2007 has a manipulated photo of Al Pacino. It was created by a friend and classmate of Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook.

What poking is? : Its actual meaning is not known, and even Zuckerberg kept it as a mystery. He says they thought it would be fun to introduce a feature with no specific purpose. People can mess around with it the way they like it.

Open Source: Facebook was developed from the ground up using open source software. We also release large pieces of our software infrastructure as open source.

Apple

All of us know about Apple Inc, a company whose name will be remembered for infinity. Following are some facts about Apple from Gizbot.

Ronald Wayne was the third founder of Apple Inc. Wayne left the company just 12 days after it was founded and sold his 10 per cent share for just $800 plus an additional payout of $1,500. The sad part is that his share would now be worth more than $60 billion.

Apple is named Apple after the fruit, and because Silicon Valley was based in fruit orchards. It also appealed to Steve Jobs because he was a fruitarian when the company was formed, and only ate fruit.

If you went back in time to 1991 and tried to buy all the parts that make up an iPhone, it would cost you more than $3m (about £1.9m). The RAM alone would cost you $1.44m.

Google

Stanford University PhD students Sergey Brin and Larry Page formed the company that has become a universal verb-the "Xerox" of internet search.  Here are some fascinating facts about Google from Lifehack.

Google's name is misspelled: The name is a play on the word "googol" (1 followed by 100 zeroes), because Brin and Page wanted to organize a "seemingly infinite amount of information on the web."

 Google has lost top talent to its competitors: Several former executives have bolted Mountain View for competitors like Facebook (Gideon Yu, Sheryl Sandberg), Yahoo (Marissa Mayer), and even the U.S. government (Megan Smith, the nation's Chief Technology Officer).

Google wants the human genetic map to be searchable: The latest GoogleX project, called Baseline Study, will collect and analyze biological samples from 175 individuals (followed by thousands more) in order to create a molecular database that can be searched for bio-markers.

Google Glass may be coming to an airport near you: One of Google's chief hardware plays is Google Glass, the wearable technology that raised eyebrows when it was unveiled. Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic, a consistent technology first-adopter, is the first airline to try Google Glass to scan boarding passengers' passports.

Google, Facebook and Apple are tech giants who have changed the way we interact with the technology and see the world. These companies always look ways to positively change your life and will further change your life through their gadgets like apple watches, Google Glasses and Facebook virtual reality. I hope you liked the facts about these tech giants.