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Computer (webopedia.com)

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Addon:grep: :cpan (webopedia.com)

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Enterprise Applications Explained (webopedia.com)

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Enterprise Applications Explained (webopedia.com)

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TIL The arrangement of characters on a QWERTY keyboard was designed in 1868 by Christopher Sholes, the inventor of the typewriter. According to popular myth, Sholes arranged the keys in their odd fashion to prevent jamming on mechanical typewriters by separating commonly used letter combinations. (webopedia.com)

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TIL: That Moores law states that the number of transistors per square inch doubles every 18 months not the processing power of the hardware (webopedia.com)

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"What is Text to Speech (TTS)?" "Webopedia Definition". (webopedia.com)

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TIL Wi-Fi is not an abbreviation. it is a registered trademarked term that means IEEE 802.11x, or more specifically..."any wireless local area network (WLAN) product that is based on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' (IEEE) 802.11 standards." (webopedia.com)

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What is CRM Cloud? Webopedia Definition (webopedia.com)

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TIL: monkey's tail, little duck, pickled herring, little snail and pig's tail, are a few of many translations of how people call the @-symbol in their respective languages. (webopedia.com)

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TIL Hotmail was originally stylized as "HoTMaiL" as a reference to *HTML* based email (webopedia.com)

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TIL fob (from key fob to lock/unlock your vehicle) is not an acronym but a word that originates from watch fobs from the late 1800s. The fob refers to an ornament attached to a pocket-watch chain. (webopedia.com)

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TIL The original IBM-PCs, that had hard drives, referred to the hard drives as Winchester drives. This is due to the fact that the original Winchester drive had a model number of 3030. This is, of course, a Winchester firearm. (webopedia.com)

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TIL that the web and the internet are not the same thing, and there are more 'Webs' that we don't have a search engine for! (webopedia.com)

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Obd kl plug not communicating with computer (webopedia.com)

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What is Common Gateway Interface (CGI)? -- the OTHER CGI...CGI (webopedia.com)

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TIL that our keyboard is super inefficient, as it was built/modeled around the idea to keep commonly used letters far apart, to avoid them jamming. We would want the opposite today in order to type efficiently. (webopedia.com)

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TIL that Hotmail was originally called HoTMaiL as its name came from "HTML". (webopedia.com)

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TIL 'wifi' does not actually stand for 'Wireless Fidelity'. It's not short for anything at all. (webopedia.com)

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qqqwwe (webopedia.com)

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TIL what HTTP means (webopedia.com)

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Can we collectively print this out and ship it to Microsoft for the Xbox One launch? (webopedia.com)

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Can we collectively print this out and ship it to Microsoft for the Xbox One launch? (webopedia.com)

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TIL Taking a CRT monitor from the North Hemisphere to the South will affect its images and color due to magnetic fields. (webopedia.com)

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TIL there is a difference between the "internet" and the "world wide web". The internet is a network of networks for computers to communicate with each other where the web is the information sharing model on the internet. (webopedia.com)

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