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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A bag of marijuana was the first thing ever bought and sold over the internet.
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CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
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In October 1997, when Internet Explorer 4.0 was released, some Microsoft employees left a giant "From the IE team... We Love You" on Netscape's lawn.
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In 1999, Pokémon was the second most searched topic on the internet. The first was pornography.
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