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    In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator*.
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    Computer programming is currently one of the fastest growing occupations.
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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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    Lose/Lose
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    There's a video game called "Lose/Lose" that deletes a random file on your computer every time you kill an enemy.
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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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    IBM's Watson computer has 90 processors, 2,880 cores, 11,200 threads, 16 terabytes of RAM, and 4TB worth of data on its hard drive.
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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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    E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
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