28% of IT Professionals hide their career from family or friends out of fear of being asked to provide free tech support.
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On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.
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Computer programming is currently one of the fastest growing occupations.
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HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple have one thing in common – apart from the obvious that they are IT companies. They were all started in garages.
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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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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 computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
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E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
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