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    The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
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    IMDb is one of the oldest websites on the internet, and began on Usenet in 1990 as a list of "actresses with beautiful eyes".
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    Random Darknet Shopper
    Random Darknet Shopper
    There's a bot called the 'Random Darknet Shopper' that is given $100 in bitcoins every week to purchase random items on the darkweb. It ended up buying 10 ecstasy pills and the creator was subsequently arrested.
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    The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
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    Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.
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    'Firefox'
    'Firefox'
    The Firefox mascot isn't actually a fox, but a red panda.
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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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    Cloud Computing
    Cloud Computing
    In 2012, a national survey found that 51% of people thought stormy weather affected cloud computing.
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