The Pirate Bay tried buying their own island in hopes of making their own country with no copyright laws.
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A bag of marijuana was the first thing ever bought and sold over the internet.
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The world's first computer, called the Z1, was invented by Konrad Zuse in 1936. His next invention, the Z2 was finished in 1939 and was the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer.
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TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.
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Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
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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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Computer programming is currently one of the fastest growing occupations.
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