Yahoo was first started by Jerry Yang and David Filo in February, 1994. It did not start as a search engine. In fact, they started it to keep track of their own interests online. Later it turned into a simple …
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#13 Daily dose : The First skype wedding
On March 7, 2011 Samuel Kim and Helen Oh, both 27, were to be married in California until the groom got a lung infection, putting him in the UCI Medical Center hospital in Orange. The duo had friends and family …
#12 Daily dose : The Android mascot
The Android operating system was developed by Android Inc., in 2004 backed by Google. Later Google bought it in 2005 at a price of $50 million. Google’s Android operating system, has attained over a billion activations on devices like smartphones …
#11 Daily dose : YouTube’s Annual April Fools Pranks
YouTube started April fool’s day pranks in 2008. Post that every year they successfully do it. In 2008 prank, all the links to the videos on the main page were redirected to Rick Astley’s music video “Never Gonna Give You …
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#10 Daily dose : The twitter bird has a name
The official name of Twitter’s bird is Larry. Yes, his name is Larry Bird.The iconic little fellow-seen in Twitter’s logo shown in TV commercials, print ads and practically every web site is not named after Larry Page or Larry King. …
#9 Daily dose : why Facebook’s primary color scheme is blue??
Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in his college dorm room six years ago. Five hundred million people have joined since, and eight hundred and seventy-nine of them are his friends. The site is a directory of the world’s people, and a …
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#8 Daily dose: Google’s pet – An T-Rex named Stan
Google has a pet T-rex, named Stan, which lives at their California headquarters. Founders bought it to remind the employees to not let Google go extinct. The lawn outside Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, is dominated by the imposing visage …
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#7 Daily dose : The Apple’s first logo.
Apple had three co-founders: Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and a third who many people won’t have heard of: Ronald Wayne. Wayne left the company just 12 days after it was founded, and sold his 10 per cent share for just …
#6 Daily dose : Ada Lovelace -The first computer programmer
Ada Lovelace (10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852) was an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage’s proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She was the first to recognise that the machine had …
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#5 Daily dose : The Y2K disaster
The Year 2000 problem is also known as the Y2K problem, the Millennium bug, the Y2K bug, or Y2K. Problems arose because programmers represented the four-digit year with only the final two digits.The 2-digit year format creates a problem for …
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