MN Tech Mag | Spring/Summer 2020

$ 0 Cost of the open source Linux

operating system, released in 1991 by Finnish engineer Linus Torvalds.

Linux The Penguin

2016 VHS tapes are finally dead. The last ever VCR was made in July of 2016.

1995 The year Amazon was invented and would go on to become one of the most valuable companies in the world.

$ 148 MILLION Revenue Amazon.com reached in 1997, a significant jump from $16 million in 1996.

BILLION 3.5

Representing

MILLION 3 . 5

of the world’s population. 45 %

Number of people

who have a smartphone as of 2019.

SECONDS 18

One year after being launched, Google was answering 3.5 million search queries daily.

Length of the clip YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim

uploaded to the site for the first time. He was sharing a clip of his visit to the San Diego Zoo.

MILLION Zoom added 2.22 million monthly active users in 2020, exceeding the 1.99 million users from all of 2019. 2 . 2 ACTIVE USERS

74

DAYS

2010 The year Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy and closed all but one store.

Time it took to sell one million iPhones after the original release on June 29, 2007.

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