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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In 2013, AOL declared that they still made over $500 million a year through dial-up internet subscriptions.
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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 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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Anthony Greco, aged 18, became the first person arrested for spim (unsolicited instant messages) on February 21,2005.
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MDIF, a New York based non-profit organisation, is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
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CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
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