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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In 1989, a British company made a laptop with a graphical user interface, a 60 hour battery life, SSD storage, and a touchpad.
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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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The Pirate Bay tried buying their own island in hopes of making their own country with no copyright laws.
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E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
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The first webcam was used in 1991 by Cambridge researchers for checking the coffee pot without leaving their desks.
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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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