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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In 1989, a British company made a laptop with a graphical user interface, a 60 hour battery life, SSD storage, and a touchpad.
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The four ghosts in Pac-Man are programmed to act differently: red chases you, pink just tries to position itself in a set way, blue tries to ambush you and orange is random.
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The famous Windows start-up sound was composed using a Mac.
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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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The first webcam was used in 1991 by Cambridge researchers for checking the coffee pot without leaving their desks.
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There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.
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The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
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