Computer programming is currently one of the fastest growing occupations.
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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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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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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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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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A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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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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