Sunday, January 8, 2017

How it all started? Brief history of Google.

We all use Google that is the most widely used web-based search engine. There is even a verb to google !
Everything started in Stanford Univeristy with an idea of two students: Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Both Brin and Page were working on the Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP). The SDLP's goal was “to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and universal digital library". It began with a research project called "BackRub.

The first iteration of Google production servers was built with inexpensive hardware and was designed to be very fault-tolerant.


Do you imagine world and Internet without any crawler? Write a short essay about life without Google.

Saturday, January 7, 2017

10 weird things about Americans.

Every nation has its weird customs, traditions and here are ten weird things that you encounter only in the United States:

1. Flags everywhere!

2. Price tags without tax included. “How do you know how much you’re spending until you get to the cashier?”

3. The bread in the U.S. is very sweet.

4. Lawyer advertisements everywhere.

5.  Soda being cheaper than bottled water.

6. Wearing shoes indoors.

7.The lack of annual leave from work and not getting paid maternity/paternity leave.

8.  Laws changing drastically between states.

9. Smiling to strangers.

10. Drive-through everything.



Think of ten werid things that can be encountered in your country!

How it all started? Brief history of Internet.




It all started in United States about 50 years ago when American government was scared of Soviet Union and its potential ability to destroy the whole network of lines and wires that made efficient long-distance communication possible. With this fear into existence came an idea to creat “galactic network” of computers that could talk to one another. It would be used as a back up plan in case of destruction of telephone lines.
In 1969 the first message was send: LO. Why LO? There should be LOG IN but one of the computers crashed from the amount of information. By the end of 1969 only four computer were connected to each other but with a time Internet and its connection was growing fast.
 In 1991 the Internet changed. That year, a computer programmer in Switzerland named Tim Berners-Lee introduced the World Wide Web: an Internet that was not simply a way to send files from one place to another but was itself a “web” of information that anyone on the Internet could retrieve. Berners-Lee created the Internet that we know today.


Imagine world without Internet and write a short essay how would world look like without it.