It was somewhere in
the year 1994, when I was introduced to this world. No, it is not a joke, I was
born long before 1994 and of course not in Mars but very much in this world
only. I am talking about internet. That time it was in its crawling stage. The
only service provider we had then was the Government owned VSNL. The
attitude of VSNL was as good as any monopoly businessman. There was a simpler package for the students with
cheaper rate but it was totally worthless. The package we used to get would
cost us three thousand bucks for hundred hours and in addition we had to
pay sixty rupees for one hour telephone charges, obviously it was a
dial-up-connection. Therefore, we robbed by the Government and it was a very smooth
operation, I mean the robbing, it happened always. Only thing was they gave us
a new address, it was an email account, the cheapest and fastest
communication tools. But the services was very bad and often during single working
process we have to face several breakdown, it was the part of that parcel or
rather package. Then two private companies, Satyam and Mantra
came in the picture but these companies vanished even before they could made
any impression. Search engines I used were Altavista.com and Infoseek.com.
Then, Sabeer Bhatia came up with
an web mail known as hotmail.com, I was having my privacy in the office because
before that we used a single mail account for our official and personal
communication. Today, Goggle is the most happening website that armed
with everything what one asked for. The journey was irritating at one point but
most of it was exciting. For me it is a learning tools all the way. Some of the
sites that I used during this journey and some others those were benchmark for
others. We should not forget the role of
a browser, without these piece of software all these would have been
impossible.
Browser
Browser, a program
that enables a computer to locate, download, and display documents containing
text, sound, video, graphics, animation, and photographs located on computer
networks.
NCSA Develops
World's First Web Browser
Students at the
NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) at the University of Illinois
The Search
Engines
GO
Go.com (also known
as The Go Network) is a web portal first launched by Jeff Gold, and now
operated by the Walt Disney Internet Group, which is a part of The Walt
Disney Company. The portal includes content from ABC News, ESPN,
and FamilyFun.com, all of which are associated with Disney and are hosted under
a go.com name. Along with TimeWarner's Pathfinder.com, Go.com proved to
be an expensive failure for its parent company, as web users preferred to use
search engines to access content directly, rather than start at a top-level
corporate portal.
Infoseek
Infoseek was a popular search engine founded in 1994
by Steve Kirsch. Infoseek was originally operated by the Infoseek
Corporation.
AltaVista
AltaVista is a web search engine owned by Yahoo!.
AltaVista was once one of the most popular search engines but its popularity
declined with the rise of Google.
Yahoo
Yahoo! inclusive was founded by Jerry Yang and
David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995. According to news sources roughly 700
million people visit Yahoo websites every month. Yahoo! itself claims it
attracts "more than half a billion consumers every month in more than 30
languages".
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational internet and
software corporation specialized in internet search, cloud computing, and
advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based
services and products. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin,
often dubbed the "Google Guys", while the two were attending Stanford University
The Webmail
Hotmail
It was founded by Sabeer
Bhatia and Jack Smith and launched in July 1996 as “HoTMaiL” It was
acquired by Microsoft in 1997 for an estimated $400 million, and shortly
after it was rebranded as "MSN Hotmail". The current version
was released in 2007.
Gmail
Gmail is a free, advertising-supported email
service provided by Google. Users may access Gmail as secure webmail,
as well via POP3 or IMAP protocols. With an initial storage capacity offer of 1
GB per user, Gmail significantly increased the webmail standard
for free storage from the 2 to 4 MB its competitors such as Hotmail offered at
that time. Individual Gmail messages, including attachments, may be up
to 25 MB, which is larger than many other mail services support. Gmail
has a search-oriented interface and a "conversation view" similar to
an Internet forum. Founded by Paul Buchheit in April 1, 2004.
The Blogs [Everyone
is a Publisher]
The first known use
of a blog on a news site was founded in August 1998 by Jonathan Dube of
The Charlotte Observer. Bruce Ableson launched Open Diary in
October 1998, which soon grew to thousands of online diaries. Open Diary
innovated the reader comment, becoming the first blog community where readers
could add comments to other writers' blog entries.
Social
Neteworking Sites [Where is my buddies?]
The first
recognizable social network site launched in 1997. SixDegrees.com
allowed users to create profiles, list their Friends and, beginning in 1998,
surf the Friends lists. SixDegrees
promoted itself as a tool to help people connect with and send messages to
others. While SixDegrees attracted millions of users, it failed to
become a sustainable business and, in 2000, the service closed.
I am not much fond
of these Social Networking Sites, because the quality of language and
the wall posting is substandard and below par, Twitter is an exception.
I am also using a
few other sites and all for free under the wings of Google, apart form
this blog site, the others are their social networking sites Google+
and Google sites for my webpage. Of course for the encyclopedias I
already mentioned in one of my blog yet my full praise for Wikipadeia and its
team.
!!!Stay Connect, Stay Sprightly!!!
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