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    In 2013, AOL declared that they still made over $500 million a year through dial-up internet subscriptions.
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    Lose/Lose
    Lose/Lose
    There's a video game called "Lose/Lose" that deletes a random file on your computer every time you kill an enemy.
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    Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.
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    "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
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    The ‘@’ sign is centuries old, and was used in Europe to denote a unit of weight (the “arroba”) equivalent to 25 lbs.
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    E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
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    The world's first computer, called the Z1, was invented by Konrad Zuse in 1936. His next invention, the Z2 was finished in 1939 and was the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer.
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    CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
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