In 1989, a British company made a laptop with a graphical user interface, a 60 hour battery life, SSD storage, and a touchpad.
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On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.
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E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
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In 1999, Pokémon was the second most searched topic on the internet. The first was pornography.
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While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.
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The four ghosts in Pac-Man are programmed to act differently: red chases you, pink just tries to position itself in a set way, blue tries to ambush you and orange is random.
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In 2013, AOL declared that they still made over $500 million a year through dial-up internet subscriptions.
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The longest-running legal battle for a domain name is believed to be the fight for PETA.org. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sued People Eating Tasty Animals to obtain the name – the case spanned from 1995 to 2001.
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