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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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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On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.
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The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
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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 the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator*.
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The four ghosts in Pac-Man are programmed to act differently: red chases you, pink just tries to position itself in a set way, blue tries to ambush you and orange is random.
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Computer programming is currently one of the fastest growing occupations.
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