A bag of marijuana was the first thing ever bought and sold over the internet.
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CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
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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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There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.
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The world's first computer, called the Z1, was invented by Konrad Zuse in 1936. His next invention, the Z2 was finished in 1939 and was the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer.
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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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Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.
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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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