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.
12
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.
165
The Pirate Bay tried buying their own island in hopes of making their own country with no copyright laws.
3
In 1956, the IBM 350 hard disk drive had 3.75 MB of storage, weighed over 2000 lbs, had to be moved around with forklifts, and was delivered via large cargo airplanes.
11
Computer programming is currently one of the fastest growing occupations.
150
On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
353
The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
97