The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
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HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple have one thing in common – apart from the obvious that they are IT companies. They were all started in garages.
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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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In 1956, the IBM 350 hard disk drive had 3.75 MB of storage, weighed over 2000 lbs, had to be moved around with forklifts, and was delivered via large cargo airplanes.
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The domain name www.youtube.com was registered on February 14, 2005.
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Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.
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MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.
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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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