The Pirate Bay tried buying their own island in hopes of making their own country with no copyright laws.
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Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
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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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By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.
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As of 2011, gamers have collectively spent over 6 million years playing World of Warcraft. That's almost as long as the existence of the human species!
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There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.
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IBM's Watson computer has 90 processors, 2,880 cores, 11,200 threads, 16 terabytes of RAM, and 4TB worth of data on its hard drive.
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