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    There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.
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    By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to 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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    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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    There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.
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    The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
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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 first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
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