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Happy 25th Birthday, World Wide Web - We Couldn't Have Done Without You

Posted: 3/12/2014 1 comments

If you are reading this article and everything else online then it's all because of the World Wide Web, had it not been there things would have been a lot different and the world wouldn't have changed for the better.

Well, today marks the 25th birthday of the World Wide Web (Yes... Happy B'day, World Wide Web) and on this occasion its inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee is calling on people like you and me to take action this year to keep the online resource open, global, accessible and free of censorship.

According to a blog post that Sir Tim Berners-Lee shared with Google, "Today is the web's 25th birthday. On March 12, 1989, I distributed a proposal to improve information flows: 'a web of notes with links between them'. Though CERN, as a physics lab, couldn't justify such a general software project, my boss Mike Sendall allowed me to work on it on the side. In 1990, I wrote the first browser and editor. In 1993, after much urging, CERN declared that WWW technology would be available to all, without paying royalties, forever".

Happy Birthday Gmail

Posted: 4/24/2013

Come April 30th and Gmail would be completing its 9th birthday. For as long as I remember, Gmail has been the helping stick in the hands of anyone past the age of telegrams and letters (although the latter's death is sad).
Gmail has evolved beautifully over the years with user feedbacks helping a long way to make what it is today.

To quote the company's official blog statement "Gmail was inspired by one user’s feedback that she was tired of struggling to find emails buried deep in her inbox.So we built a new email that leveraged the power of Google Search. You told us you were tired of spam, so we set to tackling that, and today your feedback makes it possible for Gmail to filter out well over 99% of incoming spam."