CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
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A bag of marijuana was the first thing ever bought and sold over the internet.
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On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
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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 first webcam was used in 1991 by Cambridge researchers for checking the coffee pot without leaving their desks.
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The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
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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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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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