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    On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.
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    While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.
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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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    In 2012, a national survey found that 51% of people thought stormy weather affected cloud computing.
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    MDIF, a New York based non-profit organisation, is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
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    One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.
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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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    E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
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