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    Random Computer Facts

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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 ‘@’ 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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    BackRub
    BackRub
    Google was originally called "BackRub".
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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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    The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
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    E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
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    There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.
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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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