20 years ago, there were only 130 websites, Google wasn't around, and you had to pay for an email account through an ISP.
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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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IMDb is one of the oldest websites on the internet, and began on Usenet in 1990 as a list of "actresses with beautiful eyes".
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The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
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CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
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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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A bag of marijuana was the first thing ever bought and sold over the internet.
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Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
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