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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One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.
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On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
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In October 1997, when Internet Explorer 4.0 was released, some Microsoft employees left a giant "From the IE team... We Love You" on Netscape's lawn.
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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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By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.
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MDIF, a New York based non-profit organisation, is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
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