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    In October 1997, when Internet Explorer 4.0 was released, some Microsoft employees left a giant "From the IE team... We Love You" on Netscape's lawn.
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    There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.
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    Third of All Divorce Filings State 'Facebook'
    In 2011, more than a third of all US divorce filings contained the word 'Facebook'.
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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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    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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    E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
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    Lose/Lose
    Lose/Lose
    There's a video game called "Lose/Lose" that deletes a random file on your computer every time you kill an enemy.
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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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