E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
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The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
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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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There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.
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The ‘@’ sign is centuries old, and was used in Europe to denote a unit of weight (the “arroba”) equivalent to 25 lbs.
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On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.
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In 1956, the IBM 350 hard disk drive had 3.75 MB of storage, weighed over 2000 lbs, had to be moved around with forklifts, and was delivered via large cargo airplanes.
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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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