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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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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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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There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.
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The Pirate Bay tried buying their own island in hopes of making their own country with no copyright laws.
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In 1999, Pokémon was the second most searched topic on the internet. The first was pornography.
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