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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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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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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A bag of marijuana was the first thing ever bought and sold over the internet.
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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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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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In 2013, AOL declared that they still made over $500 million a year through dial-up internet subscriptions.
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In 1999, Pokémon was the second most searched topic on the internet. The first was pornography.
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