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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The town of Villa Las Estrellas in Antarctica is the most remote town on Earth, and there's only three computers with internet access!
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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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In 2013, AOL declared that they still made over $500 million a year through dial-up internet subscriptions.
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Coca Cola owns all the domain names that can be read as 'ahh'. Such as ahh.com, ahhhh.com, ahhhhh.com, and so on... all the way up to 62 h's!
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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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The United Nations declared the Internet a basic human right in 2011.
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