CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
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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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45% of all online gamers are female, and women over the age of 18 are the industry's fastest growing demographic.
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Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have expressed their desire to see the search engine become artificial intelligence itself. To achieve that goal, they created the highly-protected “X lab.”
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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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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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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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