In 1999, Pokémon was the second most searched topic on the internet. The first was pornography.
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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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In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator*.
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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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The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.
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The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
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Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'!
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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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