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1. After Steve Jobs was ousted from Apple, he created the computer NeXT. It did not sell well, but in 1989 he sold a NeXT computer at a young computer programmer.
who happened to be Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web.
Berners-Lee worked as an independent consultant at the CERN research center where scientists from around the world to conduct research. But with every scientific bringing their own computers and software, they are not able to find and access their other work.
That's when it hit Berners-Lee that he should create a software program to make it easier for such an exchange of information.
Berners Lee bought a special computer for the project, as he told an audience at Rensselaer:
"We bought a machine cool, NeXT computer. NeXT was a machine made by Steve Jobs when he was expelled from Apple ... there was a wonderful spirit to it, the environment of a very good developer ... when the 'have open, you have a pre-recorded message that Steve said, ". Welcome to the next is not about personal computing is about computers.' inter-personal" "It was perfect. for web design ".
In 1989, Berners took this inspiration in the world, offering a. "World Wide Web" global network of computers that share information via the
published the first site over 20 years- 6 August 1991, and it looks like this:
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He also downloaded the first image to the world wide web 'horrible Cernettes aka "the horrible CERN Girls" an all female group parody pop founded in 190 by graphic designer at CERN Michele Gennaro.
They were self -étiqueté the "rock Band single High Energy" and often performed at CERN events.
This is the image in all its glory:
2 In 1971, the @ symbol wasn 't commonly used, but was still the norm on the keyboard.
So, Ray Tomlinson, a recent MIT graduate hired to help build the ARPANET (the precursor of the Internet) has chosen to distinguish between emails from servers on other computers compared to those made by people on the same computer as himself.
Before this email existed but could not be sent to others who have used the same computers.
First, Tomlinson did not believe their invention to be a big problem. In fact, he told a colleague: "Do not tell anyone! This is not what we are supposed to work. "
This may have been why he did not keep the first email he ever sent or not he remembers, he is content. - But considers that it was maybe it was something like QWERTYUIOP (because the keyboard layout)
now we can not imagine our life without it. Today ay, more than 4 billion people around the world type the @ sign every day.
3. one of the most popular features of the web is named with the inspiration of a favorite peanut butters America.
Have you been yet?
do not know?
This is another index: Dancing baby
Yep, GIF.
when deciding on pronunciation, the creator of the GIF, Steven Wilhite said he deliberately chose to echo the US peanut butter brand, like his fellow workers CompuServe often said (referring to television commercials of IWD) ". Choosy developers choose GIF (of IWD)"
in fact, to date, Wilhite still insists that its creation is pronounced with a 'G' soft
GIF actually represents Internet Graphic Format. There is an image file that is compressed to reduce the transfer time and was created to help Web designers and engineers are responsible animations on modems at the beginning of the old school and web browsers. Back in the day, an average of two minutes Youtube video may need about 40 minutes of buffering.
Today ANIMATED are more popular than ever. - Loved by millennials with the rise of microblogging sites like Tumblr and frequently used by the popular press agencies like BuzzFeed and 9GAG who know exactly how to pack these animation packages with a punch
4. Three Paypal colleagues tried to find the video of the Superbowl Janet Jackson 'wardrobe malfunction' without success.
Remember that infamous moment? Of course you do! But you will be surprised to learn that this controversy fiasco crazy pop-culture stirred until more than just tabloid drama. He inspired the creation of one of the most popular UGC (user-generated content) platforms in the world.
Have you guessed yet?
Yep, YouTube.
Jawed Kim, an employee of Paypal, was disappointed that he missed the event at halftime and was not able to find all the videos snafu online (lucky for Janet). This sparked the inspiration for him and his two colleagues Steve Chen and Chad Hurley to create a site where users could upload their own videos. Enter Youtube.
Since the first video "Me at the Zoo", which includes the co-founder Jawed Kim at the San Diego Zoo was charged April 23, 05, YouTube has raised over $ 1 billion users and currently has 300 hours of video uploaded every minute.
These videos have introduced countless rising stars and memorable, refreshing, funny and life changing times.
Fortunately for us a show of daring halftime inspired such an incredible platform media sharing. And fortunately for Janet, he was born after not before his show at halftime "memorable".
5. A young student Harvard has created a site-controversial Facemash, which crushed the students' faces side by side and let visitors choose who was "warm" or not". He was immediately arrested, but it inspired the creation of the next site.
The Facebook.
Student Mark Zuckerberg was banned from accessing the Internet Harvard after creation of the controversial site Facemash. For images to populate his site he hacked "facebooks" Harvard retained to help students identify each other. Although the site was immediately arrested, he show him how a universal social site was necessary.
Thus, he created a website that would allow people to communicate with others around the university.
When Zuckerberg finished the site, he put on a University mailing list to 300 hundred people. Within 24 hours, the site had between 1,0 to 1,500 registrants.
Fast forward to today and Zuckerberg expanded its social network to massive proportions ?; Facebook now has more than 1.55 billion monthly active users worldwide.
Good thing Zuckerberg first site was a big no-go- to us and to all students who were potentially 'not hot!
6. A company called Odeo, founded as a platform for podcasting, failed because of the lack of growth and investors. So they decided to start with a set of business "hackathons" to generate ideas.
One such idea was twttr.
The idea behind twttr, presented by the company comrades Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass and Florian Weber was a system where you could send a text to a number and it would broadcast to all your friends.
twttr evolved into Twitter, which is now one of the most popular social networking service, where users can post and send send 140-character messages limited by "tweets".
March 21, 06 Dorsey published the first Twitter message at 21:50 hours PST:
Today, the service now has over 500 million users who post more than 500 million tweets per day.
Not too bad ...
7. Two guys - Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger have created an app called Burbn, named after the preferred alcohol Systrom
Inspired by the success of the Four-square, it was an iPhone app location- based that allow users to check. in some places, make plans for future check-ins, earn points to go out with friends, and after photos of meet-ups.
However, in the end of the application failed because it was too complicated and had too many functions.
But the founders are very important to people not using observational check-in function at all, they used it picture sharing features .
And the inspiration for Instagram was born. Systrom and Krieger have created a very easy to use application that enforces cool filters and share single images. They removed all previous Burbn characteristics except photo, comment and photos like.
The first post was downloaded Instagram Dolly, dog Systrom.
and lucky for her, now she even has its own Instagram profile.
Today, Dolly is one of 400 million monthly active users Instagram filter and taking their brilliant photos.
8. A research director for a Chicago futures and options business was so addicted to the Internet, he spent his free time writing computer codes .
This passion eventually led him to create one of the 10 most popular sites on the web Wikipedia.
Jimmy Wales, inspired by the initial public offering of Netscape, left his career in finance to become an Internet Entrepreneur.
Wales started with Nupedia, an encyclopedia reviewed by peers free online with articles written by expert contributors volunteers . But Wales began to create a new encyclopedia with the help of software Wiki -. Anyone can contribute to this new encyclopedia, allowing scope and unlimited potential
Today, Wikipedia had over 1 billion modifications, through 17.6 million articles, 27 million users.
If you can believe, before the launch of Wikipedia, Wales had never traveled outside the 'North America. Of course, since the success of the basic knowledge of web favorite, Wales became an instant celebrity and has since traveled the world as the public face for the promotion of the site.
9. Sergey a 21 year old student at Stanford, was assigned to show Larry, a 22-year-old grad Michigan, around campus.
This was the meeting of the two co-founders have since created a Web Empire- Google.
Initially, Larry Page and Sergey Brin created a search engine called BackRub. The search engine operates on Stanford servers for more than a year, but had to stop because it was taking too much bandwidth.
So they turned their attention to the construction of a new search engine: Google. Google-a play on the word "googool," is a mathematical term for t This number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros, and reflects their mission to organize a seemingly quantity endless information on the web
Today Google handles more than 40,000 search queries every second, 3.5 billion searches a day and 1.2 billion searches annually.
and now it is more than just a Engine- research is a messaging provider, interactive world map, translation services, document creation tool platform cloud and much more
Even with all users and research -. 16% to 20% Google searches receives each day have never been Googled before.
Looks like the search possibilities really are endless and Larry Page and Sergey Brin really brought their infinite dream to life.
10. In the mid 190s, Gurdeep Singh Pall, a software engineer at Microsoft, helped developed a technology called PPTP- tunneling protocol peer-to-peer.
He allowed a computer to set up a secure connection, or tunnel to a remote server and was essential for companies, like Microsoft, to establish secure connections to their work and private networks from remote locations.
This was the beginning of VPN technology as we know.
Today, with the segmentation of the Internet based on geographic location and increased awareness of Internet government oversight, this technology has become very popular on the consumer market. Up to 410 million people worldwide use VPN (virtual private networks) to surf the Web safely, securely and anonymously.
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