While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.
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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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Computer programming is currently one of the fastest growing occupations.
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IMDb is one of the oldest websites on the internet, and began on Usenet in 1990 as a list of "actresses with beautiful eyes".
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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.
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A bag of marijuana was the first thing ever bought and sold over the internet.
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MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.
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"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
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