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 young programmer offered a homeless man the choice between $100 cash or coding lessons. Leo Grand chose the lessons, and now his first mobile app is available to download for $.99.
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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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Anthony Greco, aged 18, became the first person arrested for spim (unsolicited instant messages) on February 21,2005.
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Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
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CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
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