Portal:Technology/Did you know/8

... that F.I.B.S. is the earliest backgammon server on the internet and has been actively operating since July 19, 1992?
... that Nicholas Christofilos designed the Astron fusion power machine while selling elevators?
... that the automated tank cleaning machine used to clean oil tankers after discharging cargo was patented by Arthur Butterworth in 1920?
... that the India-sponsored Pan-African e-Network project aims to link all member states of the African Union with each other and India through a satellite and submarine cable network?
... that between 1930 and 1933, the Russian battleship Parizhskaya Kommuna (pictured) carried a Heinkel aircraft catapult?