20 years ago, there were only 130 websites, Google wasn't around, and you had to pay for an email account through an ISP.
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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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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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A bag of marijuana was the first thing ever bought and sold over the internet.
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Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.
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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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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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MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.
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