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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E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
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In 1999, Pokémon was the second most searched topic on the internet. The first was pornography.
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By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.
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Computer programming is currently one of the fastest growing occupations.
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On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.
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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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