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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The domain name www.youtube.com was registered on February 14, 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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CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
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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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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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