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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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    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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    Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'!
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    Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
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    Cloud Computing
    Cloud Computing
    In 2012, a national survey found that 51% of people thought stormy weather affected cloud computing.
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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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    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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    In 1989, a British company made a laptop with a graphical user interface, a 60 hour battery life, SSD storage, and a touchpad.
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