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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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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The Pirate Bay tried buying their own island in hopes of making their own country with no copyright laws.
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In 1999, Pokémon was the second most searched topic on the internet. The first was pornography.
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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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There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.
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