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    The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
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    In 2012, a national survey found that 51% of people thought stormy weather affected cloud computing.
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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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    The first webcam was used in 1991 by Cambridge researchers for checking the coffee pot without leaving their desks.
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    CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
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    Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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    By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.
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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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