Random Computer Facts

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    All 3 founders of Apple worked at Atari before forming Apple.
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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 is a Swedish religion called Kopimism whose sole tenet is that all knowledge should be available to everyone - and thus, using CTRL+C and CTRL+V are sacred acts.
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    In 2012, a national survey found that 51% of people thought stormy weather affected cloud computing.
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    According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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    The famous Windows start-up sound was composed using a Mac.
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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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    Computer programming is currently one of the fastest growing occupations.
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