In 1999, Pokémon was the second most searched topic on the internet. The first was pornography.
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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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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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A bag of marijuana was the first thing ever bought and sold over the internet.
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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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There is a county in California called Yolo.
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