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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Anthony Greco, aged 18, became the first person arrested for spim (unsolicited instant messages) on February 21,2005.
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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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CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
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In 1999, Pokémon was the second most searched topic on the internet. The first was pornography.
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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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