In honor of Festivus —the infamous holiday from Seinfeld — it’s time for the traditional Airing of Grievances.

My IT Retrieval brings simplicity, structure, and confidence to an area of business that often feels chaotic.

That’s not just innovation. That’s the original mic drop.

Known as “Data Center Alley,” Ashburn is home to one of the largest concentrations of data centers on Earth.

Did you know most of the internet isn’t human?

Did you know the name of the iconic search engine was not always Google?

Meta is building something massive — Project Waterworth, a subsea fiber-optic cable stretching 50,000 km across five continents.

How many devices walked out with them?

In 1999, a 15-year-old hacker known online as “c0mrade” pulled off one of the most audacious cyber infiltrations in history.

One day, disaster struck: the system went down. Hard drives crashed, files became corrupted, and it looked like months of painstaking animation work might be lost.

Imagine an alarm clock that only wakes you up at 4 a.m.—no matter what. Sounds ridiculous today, right?

This quirky fact is a good reminder that success isn’t just about the name—it’s about building something people genuinely want.

On July 16, 2010, Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom uploaded the app's first-ever image—and it wasn’t a sunset selfie or brunch pic.

In 1998, Google’s founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, offered to sell their fledgling search engine to Yahoo for just $1 million.

The charge? Driving without a license and running a stop sign.

These sweet names added personality to the platform and became a fun tradition for users and developers alike.

Today, if a digital ad gets a 1% click-through rate, it's considered a win. But in 1994, the very first online ad pulled off something almost unthinkable today: a 44% click-through rate.

Before Android powered billions of smartphones, it was actually designed for digital cameras!

This Apple employee growth timeline (featured in the chart above) highlights how major events like the launch of the iPhone, the return of Steve Jobs, and the transition to Apple Silicon fueled Apple’s exponential workforce expansion.

It’s a common frustration for employers—an employee departs and your company laptop, phone, or access badge doesn’t return.  You're left...