In 1999, Pokémon was the second most searched topic on the internet. The first was pornography.
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A bag of marijuana was the first thing ever bought and sold over the internet.
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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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The United Nations declared the Internet a basic human right in 2011.
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