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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The Gmail logo was designed the night before it was launched.
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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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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 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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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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