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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A bag of marijuana was the first thing ever bought and sold over the internet.
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Amazon sells more e-books than printed books.
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Kissenger is a pig-shaped robotic device that lets you kiss someone over the internet.
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The domain name www.youtube.com was registered on February 14, 2005.
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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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Anthony Greco, aged 18, became the first person arrested for spim (unsolicited instant messages) on February 21,2005.
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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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