MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.
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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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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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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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The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
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In 2013, AOL declared that they still made over $500 million a year through dial-up internet subscriptions.
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On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.
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