While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.
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As of 2011, gamers have collectively spent over 6 million years playing World of Warcraft. That's almost as long as the existence of the human species!
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20 years ago, there were only 130 websites, Google wasn't around, and you had to pay for an email account through an ISP.
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By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.
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IBM's Watson computer has 90 processors, 2,880 cores, 11,200 threads, 16 terabytes of RAM, and 4TB worth of data on its hard drive.
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The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.
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