funfact.wiki
AboutGuidelinesTermsPrivacyContact

Content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

In 2011, a 75-year-old woman in Georgia digging for scrap... | funfact.wiki | funfact.wiki
In 2011, a 75-year-old woman in Georgia digging for scrap metal severed a fiber-optic cable with her spade, knocking out 12 hours of Internet for neighboring Armenia, which routed 90% of its traffic through Georgia. Media nicknamed her the 'spade hacker'.
  • Internet
  • Armenia
  • Georgia
  • Grandmother
  • Hacking
0
DiscussionHistory

Related Cards

The term 'spam mail' comes from Monty Python's comedy sketch 'Spam.' During World War II, the US supplied massive amounts of SPAM cans to Britain, and the Brits' frustration inspired the sketch. The name later stuck to annoying promotional emails.
  • Monty Python
  • World War II
  • USA
  • Britain
  • Internet
0
Searching '241543903' brings up photos of people with their heads in refrigerators. In 2009, American artist David Horvitz created this number by combining his fridge's serial number with barcodes of food inside it, sparking an internet meme that spread worldwide from Brazil.
  • 241543903
  • Refrigerator
  • Internet
  • Meme
0
Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the Internet, apologized for adding "//" to "http://". He said "http:" alone would have sufficed, but he added the slashes because "it looked cool at the time."
  • Internet
  • Computer
  • Tim Berners-Lee
0
In 1957, a blind boy named Joe Engressia with perfect pitch discovered that whistling a 2600Hz tone into a telephone could manipulate the phone system. This became known as 'phreaking.' Among the next generation it inspired were Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
  • Hacking
  • Telephone
  • Apple
  • Steve Jobs
  • Steve Wozniak
0
In January 2022, porn featuring Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy VII was played during an Italian Senate Zoom meeting. A senator had exposed the login credentials on Facebook, allowing an outsider to hijack the session and stream the video for about 30 seconds.
  • Italy
  • Final Fantasy VII
  • Tifa Lockhart
  • Porn
  • Game
  • Hacking
0