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    By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.
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    Windows 'Con' Folder
    Windows 'Con' Folder
    It’s not possible to create a folder named “con” on a Windows computer.
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    On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.
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    A bag of marijuana was the first thing ever bought and sold over the internet.
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    GTA Origin
    GTA Origin
    Grand Theft Auto was originally a racing game called Race’n’Chase. However, a glitch made the police cars go crazy, ramming the player. This glitch was so popular with testers that they rebuilt the game around it, creating GTA.
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    CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
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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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    Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.
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