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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As of 2011, gamers have collectively spent over 6 million years playing World of Warcraft. That's almost as long as the existence of the human species!
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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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20 years ago, there were only 130 websites, Google wasn't around, and you had to pay for an email account through an ISP.
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45% of all online gamers are female, and women over the age of 18 are the industry's fastest growing demographic.
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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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The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
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