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Colors in the Google logo were probably inspired by the colors of building blocks used to construct the cabinet that stored the ten hard disks Larry Page used for his project at Stanford. [more...]
Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube, couldn’t find the Wardrobe Malfunction video online. So he created YouTube.com [more...]
QuinStreet, Inc. has spent more than $100 million to purchase just here insurancethemed domain names - carinsurance.com, insurance.com and insure.com. They also own the uber-premium domain name, internet.com. [more...]
Alex Tew, a 21-year old student worried about paying off his student loan, created a simple home page and sold off the pixels that ultimately got him more than a million dollars. [more...]
I am Rich, a completely useless app on the Apple store costing $999.99 was bought by at least 8 people before being taken down. [more...]
Steve jobs founded another great computer company besides Apple. That was NeXT on which the World Wide Web was invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. [more...]
Douglas Engelbart who invented the mouse never received any royalties for his invention. The patented device was originally called X-Y position indicator for a display system and was picked up by Steve Jobs and incorporated in Apple computers. [more...]
HTML, the language used for creating web pages is not a programming language because it lacks the basic elements of one - variables, loops, conditional statements etc. [more...]
The very first iPhone wasn’t launched by Apple. The device was created by Infogear which was later acquired by Cisco. [more...]
The World Wide Web was born at CERN, a high-energy physics facility located on the borders of Switzerland and France. The WWW was invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. [more...]
Internet was born at ARPA, the Advanced Research Projects Agency, a part of the United States Department of Defense. Its direct predecessor, ARPANET, became functional on 20th October 1969. [more...]
Ray Tomlinson invented the modern email messaging system. He sent the first message over ARPANET but was skeptical of telling everyone what he had invented. [more...]
How do I view a deleted web page?
Is there a way to view a deleted web page - one that is no longer available? Yes there is and the solution is quite simple. [more...]
The popular Times New Roman typeface is actually quite old having been designed in 1931. The Times newspaper commissioned typographer Stanley Morison after he publicly criticised the newspaper for the poor quality of its printing. The work was carried out by Victor Lardent under the direction of Morison. Times New Roman font became extremely popular when it was included on Microsoft Windows and became one of the core fonts for the Web. It is now one of the most used fonts in history. And at 14 point, it has become the U.S. State Department's standard typeface. [more...]
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