E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
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Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
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Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
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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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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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HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple have one thing in common – apart from the obvious that they are IT companies. They were all started in garages.
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