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    Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
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    BackRub
    BackRub
    Google was originally called "BackRub".
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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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    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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    Terms & Conditions
    Terms & Conditions
    It would take 76 work days (8 hours a day) for the average person to read the Terms and Conditions they agree to in a year.
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    "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
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    The famous Windows start-up sound was composed using a Mac.
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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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