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 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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IMDb is one of the oldest websites on the internet, and began on Usenet in 1990 as a list of "actresses with beautiful eyes".
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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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The United Nations declared the Internet a basic human right in 2011.
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The domain name www.youtube.com was registered on February 14, 2005.
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