E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
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In 1999, Pokémon was the second most searched topic on the internet. The first was pornography.
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On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.
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The Pirate Bay tried buying their own island in hopes of making their own country with no copyright laws.
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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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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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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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