The first webcam was used in 1991 by Cambridge researchers for checking the coffee pot without leaving their desks.
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80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women
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The longest-running legal battle for a domain name is believed to be the fight for PETA.org. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sued People Eating Tasty Animals to obtain the name – the case spanned from 1995 to 2001.
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A bag of marijuana was the first thing ever bought and sold over the internet.
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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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