The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
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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 ‘@’ 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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The first webcam was used in 1991 by Cambridge researchers for checking the coffee pot without leaving their desks.
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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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In October 1997, when Internet Explorer 4.0 was released, some Microsoft employees left a giant "From the IE team... We Love You" on Netscape's lawn.
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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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