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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As of 2011, gamers have collectively spent over 6 million years playing World of Warcraft. That's almost as long as the existence of the human species!
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MDIF, a New York based non-profit organisation, is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
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The famous Windows start-up sound was composed using a Mac.
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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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IBM's Watson computer has 90 processors, 2,880 cores, 11,200 threads, 16 terabytes of RAM, and 4TB worth of data on its hard drive.
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