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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For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.
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By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.
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The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.
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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 2013, AOL declared that they still made over $500 million a year through dial-up internet subscriptions.
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