Evolution of the Internet Username

The Net Generation Cartoon - Evolution of the Internet Username

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The Internet username started out with lots of people using nicknames and  other imaginative words. People were really scared to share personal information on the Internet then.

Then with the proliferation of more web services and a lot more of people on the Intenet, finding a username of your choice became difficult. So people started adding their birth year or the year of opening their email/webs service account at the end of their username.

But since 2006, with the advent of social networking sites like Orkut and now Facebook, the younger generation of users have got no fears or qualms about using their real identities. Some even go as far as posting their phone numbers and home addresses with photos of everyone of their family and friends. Risky? Yes….but this seems to be how a very open technology like the World Wide Web/Internet is fostering a more open society.

Snaps for Thought – Moksha Search Engines – Large Hadron Collider vs Mandala – Scientists and Spiritualists on the same journey (Outer Search vs Inner Search)

Snaps for Thought – Moksha Search Engines – Large Hadron Collider vs Mandala – Scientists and Spiritualists on the same journey (Outer Search vs Inner Search)

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I find the inner search more attractive since it's like trying to go back to the source…isn't it obvious enough that the world we live in seems to be a projection of our mind? It's like watching a movie, and suddenly mid-way you try to find the projector room from where the movie is being screened.

The outer search, according to me, will never end since the material Universe is mathematically recursive…I think this is very obvious too…doesn't need a genius to figure it out. Einstein said at the end of his days:

"I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

LARGE HADRON COLLIDER

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a gigantic scientific instrument near Geneva, where it spans the border between Switzerland and France about 100 m underground. It is a particle accelerator used by physicists to study the smallest known particles – the fundamental building blocks of all things. It will revolutionise our understanding, from the minuscule world deep within atoms to the vastness of the Universe. (Source: CERN)

MANDALA

A mandala is a Hindu geometric pattern or chart, typically circular or square, that symbolically represents the cosmos and is used for meditation purposes.
According to David Fontana, its symbolic nature can help one "to access progressively deeper levels of the unconscious, ultimately assisting the meditator to experience a mystical sense of oneness with the ultimate unity from which the cosmos in all its manifold forms arises." (Source: Wikipedia.org)

Know your Web Founders – Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo.com

Know your Web Founders – Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo.com

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Jerry Yang, David Filo – Creators of the World Wide Web's First Web Directory YAHOO.COM
Quote: "Thousands of people were producing new Web sites every day, we were just trying to take all  that stuff and organize it to make it useful."

How Yahoo was born: 1994, Stanford University

Jerry Yang and David Filo were electrical engineering students from Stanford University.

The World Wide Web was at its infancy then and was an exciting diversion for the duo from their tedious studies.
There were zillions of websites to explore but no way to keep track of the cool ones. So they got the idea  of  putting together a list of their favorite sites, organized into topics, then designed a search engine that made finding the right site as simple as typing in the right keywords. (Adapted from: Entrepreneur.com)

In April 1994, Jerry renamed his "Guide to the World Wide Web" "Yahoo!" for which the official expansion is "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". The word's general definition comes from Gulliver's Travels which means "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." The original URL was akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo.

(Source: ComputerWeekly.com)

As Yahoo!'s list of sites expanded, so did its number of users. By November 1994, 170,000 people a day were visiting the site. By 1998, Web surfers were dropping into Yahoo! at the rate of more than a million a day. (Source: Entrepreneur.com)

Father of the World Wide Web, The World’s First Website

Father of the World Wide Web, The World's First Website

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What Inspired this BlogPostCard:

Today morning, from my BoingBoing (one of the world's most famous blogs) RSS feed, I came across  a link to an  article written by Sir Tim Berners Lee himself – Long Live the Web published on Scientific American.

On a side note, to make the blogpostcard more exciting, I'm thinking of redesigning the information presentation in a more lateral way (meaning not in a linear fashion as you see it now). Actually, the whole concept of a blogpostcard was that – information presented in a condensed yet radical visual format for easy assimilation. I think I'm yet to reach that zenith.

Sir Tim Berners Lee -  Creator o f the World Wide Web

Recent Quote:
"The world wide web went live, on my physical desktop in Geneva, Switzerland, in December 1990.  It consisted of one Web site and one browser, which happened to be on the same computer. The simple setup demonstrated a profound concept: that any person could share information with anyone else, anywhere.

Born: 1955, London, England

He studied at The Queen's College, Oxford, from 1973 to 1976, where he received a first-class degree in Physics.

The Hypertext (linking) Idea
While an independent contractor at CERN from June to December 1980, Berners-Lee proposed a project based on the concept of hypertext, to facilitate sharing and updating information among researchers.

World's First Website
In 1989, CERN was the largest Internet node in Europe, and Berners-Lee saw an opportunity to join hypertext with the Internet: "I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the Transmission Control Protocol and domain name system ideas and—ta-da! — the World Wide Web."

The first web site built was at CERN, and was first put online on 6 August 1991. Info.cern.ch was the address of the world's first-ever web site and web server

Learning a Language from Signboards (Arabic) – Daraj (Staircase)

Learning a Language from Signboards (Arabic) – Daraj (Staircase)

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If I remember right, I had clicked this through my mobile phone camera in my office building.

I think learning a language through the signboards in a city will help improve our vocabulary in that language.

Would be great if people can  create their own series in other languages and share it.

The Net Generation Cartoon – Exciting Net Trends for Today

The Net Generation Cartoon – Exciting Net Trends for Today

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Exciting Net Trends is a now and then update if we come across some exciting web technology or service news.

Facebook to provide email…
goodbye Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo?
Facebook moves closer to web domination.
Books the domain Fb.com.
Soon you can have YourName@fb.com
Facebook is expected to announce this
on 15th Nov 2010.

(Get more information at these links: You've got FMail)

New .co domain name extension released
Now you can have YourWebsiteName.co also,
apart from the usual YourWebsiteName.com

(Get more information at these links: .CO Domain Names are now available)

New web browser called RockMelt  launched
Rockmelt aims to become a "Social Browser"
by integrating your social life directly into
your web browser's interface.
(RockMelt.com)

Thought Card for Today – Walt Disney – If you can dream it, you can do it!

Thought Card for Today – Walt Disney – If you can dream it, you can do it!

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Net Generation Cartoon – Goodbye Website Designer, Hello Facebook Page Designers

Net Generation Cartoon – Goodbye Website Designer, Hello Facebook Page Designers

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The Local Revolution has just now begun, meaning that local businesses and community based services are going to get a huge boost through the popularity of Facebook. So goodbye website designers and thanks for all the fish.

What I mean is that website designers serving  local businesses are better off moving their clients onto Facebook. Because that's where all the action is going to be, you can even forget search engines and SEO etc. Not that these are not going to matter, they will but the bigger leverage will be with a presence on Facebook.

News source: Facebook Deals gets massive brand backing

Thought Card for Today – Plant A Tree, Save A Life

Thought Card for Today – Plant A Tree, Save A Life

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Thought for Today – Nature eCards – Plant more trees

Thought for Today – Nature eCards – Plant more trees

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Profiting from Mother Nature's property,
Shouldn't we also give,
When we get it all for free?
It's really easy,
All that we have to do is…
PLANT MORE TREES!