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Amazing fact: Dilbert zone

The Dilbert Zone was the first comic website on the Internet.

Amazing fact: Facebook

Facebook, Twitter and The New York Times have been blocked in China since 2009.A third of all divorce filings of 2011 in the U.S. contained the word "Facebook."You can't block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook.Facebook earns an average of US$5.85 from every U.S. user.

Amazing fact: Online gaming

Online gaming isn't as recent a development as you may think; in the '90s, a modem peripheral called the Satellaview was released for the Super Nintendo. It let gamers download gaming news and specially-designed games. They were mostly remakes of retro classics.

Amazing fact: Nam june paik

Nam June Paik coined the phrase "information superhighway" in 1974. Al Gore popularized the phrase in the early 1990's.

Amazing fact: Ericsson

Ericsson was the first company to market a device as a "smartphone" in 2000 with the launch of the R380. The first working smartphone was introduced eight years earlier by IBM, which debuted the Simon at COMDEX.


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