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 Pirate Bay tried buying their own island in hopes of making their own country with no copyright laws.
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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 banner advertising was used in 1994.
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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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In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator*.
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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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