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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In 1999, Pokémon was the second most searched topic on the internet. The first was pornography.
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There is a county in California called Yolo.
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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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A bag of marijuana was the first thing ever bought and sold over the internet.
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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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