The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
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In 1999, Pokémon was the second most searched topic on the internet. The first was pornography.
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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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A bag of marijuana was the first thing ever bought and sold over the internet.
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Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
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There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.
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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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