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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The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.
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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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On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.
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The domain name www.youtube.com was registered on February 14, 2005.
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There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.
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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 longest-running legal battle for a domain name is believed to be the fight for PETA.org. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sued People Eating Tasty Animals to obtain the name – the case spanned from 1995 to 2001.
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