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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Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
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20 years ago, there were only 130 websites, Google wasn't around, and you had to pay for an email account through an ISP.
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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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The first webcam was used in 1991 by Cambridge researchers for checking the coffee pot without leaving their desks.
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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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CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
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The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
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