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Colours in Google’s logo are based on colours of Lego bricks!
Colors in the Google logo were probably inspired by the colors of building blocks used to construct the cabinet that stored the te [more...]
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He couldn’t find a video so he created YouTube
Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube, couldn’t find the Wardrobe Malfunction video online. So he created YouTube.com [more...]
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Company spends $100 million on just 3 domain names
QuinStreet, Inc. has spent more than $100 million to purchase just here insurancethemed domain names - carinsurance.com, insurance [more...]
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Simple web page earns student one million dollars
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 [more...]
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People bought a completely useless $999.99 app!
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...]
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WWW was invented on Steve Jobs’ company computers
Steve jobs founded another great computer company besides Apple. That was NeXT on which the World Wide Web was invented by Sir Tim [more...]
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Inventor of the mouse never received any royalties
Douglas Engelbart who invented the mouse never received any royalties for his invention. The patented device was originally called [more...]
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HTML is not a programming language
HTML, the language used for creating web pages is not a programming language because it lacks the basic elements of one - variable [more...]
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Apple wasn’t the first company to launch iPhone
The very first iPhone wasn’t launched by Apple. The device was created by Infogear which was later acquired by Cisco. [more...]
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The World Wide Web was born at a physics facility
The World Wide Web was born at CERN, a high-energy physics facility located on the borders of Switzerland and France. The WWW was [more...]
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The Internet was born at a defence organisation
Internet was born at ARPA, the Advanced Research Projects Agency, a part of the United States Department of Defense. Its direct pr [more...]
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Email inventor was scared of showing his creation
Ray Tomlinson invented the modern email messaging system. He sent the first message over ARPANET but was skeptical of telling ever [more...]
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