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 longest-running legal battle for a domain name is believed to be the fight for PETA.org. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sued People Eating Tasty Animals to obtain the name – the case spanned from 1995 to 2001.
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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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In 2013, AOL declared that they still made over $500 million a year through dial-up internet subscriptions.
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CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
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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 average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.
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