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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The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
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Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
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The famous Windows start-up sound was composed using a Mac.
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A bag of marijuana was the first thing ever bought and sold over the internet.
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45% of all online gamers are female, and women over the age of 18 are the industry's fastest growing demographic.
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The average 21 year old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games, has exchanged 250,000 e-mails, instant and text messages and has spent 10,000 hours on the mobile phone.
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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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