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    In 1999, Pokémon was the second most searched topic on the internet. The first was pornography.
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    There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.
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    Computer programming is currently one of the fastest growing occupations.
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    IBM's Watson computer has 90 processors, 2,880 cores, 11,200 threads, 16 terabytes of RAM, and 4TB worth of data on its hard drive.
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    In 2012, a national survey found that 51% of people thought stormy weather affected cloud computing.
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    The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.
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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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    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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