stackyFACTS
Technology

What is the irritating psychological truth behind the painfully slow progress bars you see during software updates?

HERE’S THE INTERESTING PART

What is the irritating psychological truth behind the painfully slow progress bars you see during software updates?

From the Stacky collection1 min read
What is the irritating psychological truth behind the painfully slow progress bars you see during software updates?
STACKY / Technology
Topics in this factsoftwaredesignux
One discovery leads to another.

Keep exploring facts in this topic.

Technology →
STACKY FOR IPHONE

A bigger world.
One discovery
at a time.

Keep discovering with Stacky. Interesting facts in an app that is always within reach.

Download on the App Store
ONE MORE DISCOVERY?

Keep exploring

All in this topic →
Microsoft designer Vincent Connare created the infamous Comic Sans font in 1994 to be used in the speech bubbles of a cartoon dog designed to help people navigate Windows 95.
Technology

Microsoft designer Vincent Connare created the infamous Comic Sans font in 1994 to be used in the speech bubbles of a cartoon dog designed to help people navigate Windows 95.

Microsoft designer Vincent Connare created the infamous Comic Sans font in 1994 to be used in the speech bubbles of a cartoon dog designed to help people…

Discover more
The tangled code keeping critical systems alive
Technology

The tangled code keeping critical systems alive

If the public actually saw the code running their lives, society would collapse in panic. Critical platforms holding immense databases are often a tangled…

Discover more
Microsoft programmers spent an absurd amount of time tweaking the default double-click speed of the mouse in early Windows versions to accommodate older users whose declining motor skills made rapid clicking difficult.
Technology

Microsoft programmers spent an absurd amount of time tweaking the default double-click speed of the mouse in early Windows versions to accommodate older users whose declining motor skills made rapid clicking difficult.

Microsoft programmers spent an absurd amount of time tweaking the default double-click speed of the mouse in early Windows versions to accommodate older users…

Discover more
The Mac startup sound was designed to calm you down
Technology

The Mac startup sound was designed to calm you down

If you owned a computer in the 90s, turning it on was a game of Russian roulette. The jarring error beeps of early Macs gave users literal anxiety. Jim…

Discover more
What specific biological tracking pattern do human eyes naturally follow when opening a brand new webpage?
Technology

What specific biological tracking pattern do human eyes naturally follow when opening a brand new webpage?

What specific biological tracking pattern do human eyes naturally follow when opening a brand new webpage?

Discover more
The Space Shuttle had less code than your microwave
Technology

The Space Shuttle had less code than your microwave

Your kitchen appliances are statistically smarter than Apollo-era spaceships. The Space Shuttle's primary flight software had about 400,000 lines of code. A…

Discover more
StackyMore discoveries in the app
Download on the App Store