HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple have one thing in common – apart from the obvious that they are IT companies. They were all started in garages.
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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 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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Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
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For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.
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In the wake of Goat Simulator's popularity, 'Rock Simulator 2014' was developed and released. Gameplay simulates life as a rock.
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In 2013, AOL declared that they still made over $500 million a year through dial-up internet subscriptions.
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