A bag of marijuana was the first thing ever bought and sold over the internet.
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In 2013, AOL declared that they still made over $500 million a year through dial-up internet subscriptions.
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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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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 world's first computer, called the Z1, was invented by Konrad Zuse in 1936. His next invention, the Z2 was finished in 1939 and was the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer.
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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 average 21 year old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games, has exchanged 250,000 e-mails, instant and text messages and has spent 10,000 hours on the mobile phone.
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