The first stock exchange opened in Amsterdam in 1602 — to trade Dutch East India Company shares

Nintendo was founded in 1889 — originally as a playing card company in Kyoto

Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company in Kyoto

The capital of Turkey is Ankara, not Istanbul — moved by Atatürk in 1923

Capital of Turkey: Ankara, established by Atatürk in 1923

The printing press was invented by Gutenberg around 1440 — but China had movable type 400 years earlier

Gutenberg's press, circa 1440, followed China's 1000-year-old movable type innovation

What an IPO is — initial public offering, a company's first sale of stock to the public

An IPO is a company's first public sale of stock to investors

What the dot-com bubble was — internet stocks soared on speculation then crashed in 2000-2002

Speculative rise and subsequent crash of internet-based companies in the late 1990s and early 2000s

The first website went live on August 6, 1991 — created by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN

Tim Berners-Lee launched the first website on August 6, 1991, at CERN