A bag of marijuana was the first thing ever bought and sold over the internet.
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MDIF, a New York based non-profit organisation, is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
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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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After coming across a "very sweet" homeless man from Jamaica named Michael on a night out, Londoner Jenny Baker took to Twitter, and within hours, using the hashtag #getmichaelhome, had raised thousands of pounds so that he could return home to Jamaica where he said he would be "happy again".
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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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20 years ago, there were only 130 websites, Google wasn't around, and you had to pay for an email account through an ISP.
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