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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On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
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Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
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Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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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 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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The first webcam was used in 1991 by Cambridge researchers for checking the coffee pot without leaving their desks.
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