Computer Facts

    Random Computer Facts

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    Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.
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    For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.
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    There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.
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    Random Darknet Shopper
    Random Darknet Shopper
    There's a bot called the 'Random Darknet Shopper' that is given $100 in bitcoins every week to purchase random items on the darkweb. It ended up buying 10 ecstasy pills and the creator was subsequently arrested.
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    The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
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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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    MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.
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    Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
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