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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A bag of marijuana was the first thing ever bought and sold over the internet.
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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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TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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In 1989, a British company made a laptop with a graphical user interface, a 60 hour battery life, SSD storage, and a touchpad.
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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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The first webcam was used in 1991 by Cambridge researchers for checking the coffee pot without leaving their desks.
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