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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By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.
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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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MDIF, a New York based non-profit organisation, is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
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Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
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