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    The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
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    Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
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    The four ghosts in Pac-Man are programmed to act differently: red chases you, pink just tries to position itself in a set way, blue tries to ambush you and orange is random.
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    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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    The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
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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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    Ecosia
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    Ecosia is a search engine that helps to save the environment by donating 80% of its income to planting trees in Brazil.
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    MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.
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