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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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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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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The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
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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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In 2013, AOL declared that they still made over $500 million a year through dial-up internet subscriptions.
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There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.
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Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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