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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IMDb is one of the oldest websites on the internet, and began on Usenet in 1990 as a list of "actresses with beautiful eyes".
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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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E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
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45% of all online gamers are female, and women over the age of 18 are the industry's fastest growing demographic.
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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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CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
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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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