Starbucks flopped in Australia. Starbucks may be a staple in many countries, but Aussies couldn’t care less. Since opening dozens of locations in Australia in 2000, 70% have already closed down, leaving only 23 cafes still operating in the country. This is only one of the many fun facts about Australia.
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IT Professionals Stress Out About Technology Just Like Everyone Else. Most people think of IT professionals as experts in hardware and software. 31% of them rated “keeping up with technology” as the biggest challenge in the workplace, though. Unsurprisingly, IT professionals constantly deal with new hardware and software. New products and services launch in the IT field every single day. IT professionals who work with multiple companies or clients may find themselves using dozens of different hardware and software solutions. For high-level IT professionals, “impact on work-life balance” takes precedence over technology woes. Many IT professionals pointed out they feel like they’re connected to work 24/7 but wouldn’t choose another profession.
What Was The First Ever.COM Domain? Symbolics Inc. registered the first .COM domain on March 15, 1985. For obvious reasons, the company chose to register Symbolics.com on the World Wide Web. Nordu.net was technically the first domain name ever but didn’t go through the registration process. Less than 15,000 domains had been registered to the web in 1992. In 2010, more than 200 million domains were registered to .COM alone. Dozens of other domain names exist, and millions of websites are registered with each one. No domain name is going to come close to dethroning .COM anytime soon, if ever. Regardless, Symbolics.com will hold its place in history.
We can thank the railroad industry for standardising our time zones. Until the 19th century, towns and villages synchronised their clocks to the local solar noon. This created thousands of local times that all varied and made scheduling transportation a major headache. Train schedules in different cities had to list dozens of arrival and departure times for each train to account for all the mini-time zones. On November 18, 1883, railroad companies in the United States and Canada began using a system very similar to the standardised time zones we still use today. In the UK, the railroad companies began using a standard London-based time in 1840.