In 1999, Pokémon was the second most searched topic on the internet. The first was pornography.
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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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There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.
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Song stuck in your head but can’t think of the name? There's a website called midomi.com that allows you to sing or hum a song into your computer or phone and it will find the actual song.
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Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
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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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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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On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.
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