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More Shorts — Part 3
The rest of the Built by Buit shorts library — more tech mysteries, firsts, and name origins.
Shorts — Part 3
▶Was Your Phone More Powerful Than Apollo?
▶Why is it called a meme?
▶Why is it called an emoji?
▶Why is the Twitter bird named Larry?
▶Why Does Restarting Actually Fix Everything?
▶Why Does Your Phone Die Faster in the Cold?
▶What Is That Weird Lump on Your Charger Cable?
▶Why Is Your New Drive Missing Storage?
▶What Was the First Item Ever Sold on eBay?
▶Does the Padlock Icon Mean a Site Is Safe?
▶What Did the Very First Tweet Ever Say?
▶Why Does Hold Music Sound So Awful?
▶The world’s most popular programming language is named after a comedy group
▶Why Do Wired Earbuds Always Tangle?
▶Why Is It Always Error 404?
▶Did Someone Sell Pixels for a Million Dollars?
▶What Was the First Thing Scanned by a Barcode?
▶Why Do Photos of Screens Look So Weird?
▶Who Invented the First Smiley Face?
▶How Does Shazam Know Any Song So Fast?
▶Why Do Screens Go Dark Through Sunglasses?
▶Why Do Clicked Links Turn Purple?
▶What Did the First Text Message Ever Say?
▶What Were Wikipedia’s First Ever Words?
▶How Do Noise-Cancelling Headphones Work?
▶The First Internet Ad Got a 44% Click Rate?
▶Why Does Your Phone Get Slower Every Year?
▶Why Does Your Phone Stop Charging at 80%?
▶Are the First Emoji in an Art Museum?
▶Where Was the First Camera Phone Photo Taken?
▶What Does the Word Hotmail Secretly Spell?
▶How Do Two-Factor Codes Work Offline?
▶Why Is the Headphone Jack So Weirdly Specific?
▶Why Do Emoji Look Different on iPhone vs Android?
▶How Old Is the First Spam Email Ever?
▶Why Does Airplane Mode Actually Exist?
▶Why Is Internet Speed in Megabits, Not Bytes?
▶What Was the First Digital Photo Ever?
▶Why Do You Pull Down to Refresh Your Apps?
▶Why Does Your Phone Charger Feel Warm?
▶Why Are Phone and Calculator Keypads Flipped?