The Gmail logo was designed the night before it was launched.
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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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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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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 domain name www.youtube.com was registered on February 14, 2005.
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CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
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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 1999, Pokémon was the second most searched topic on the internet. The first was pornography.
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