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    CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
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    Google was originally called "BackRub".
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    On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
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    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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    One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.
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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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    In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator*.
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    TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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