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Web Design in 1996

Lego
Web Design in year 1996 was quite simple, even the large companies like Lego, McDonalds and nytimes.
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Evolution of Desktops

Windows 1.0Windows Vista
The picture at the left hand side shows Microsoft Windows 1.0 and the picture at the right hand side shows Windows Vista which has very nice graphic. You can see more popular desktops from year 1984 t0 2007 at Room 101 website.

via Room 101

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How Big Companies Got Their Names

Do you know how these companies got their names… I bet you must have known most of them. Expressions In Solitude give the revision for us.

Apache – It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA’s httpd daemon. The result was ‘A PAtCHy’ server -– thus, the name Apache.

Apple Computers – Steve Jobs was three months late in filing a name for the business because he didn’t get any better name for his new company. So one day he told to the staff: “If I’ll not get better name by 5 o’clock today, our company’s name will be anything he likes…” So at 5 o’clcok nobody come up with better name, and he was eating Apple that time… so he keep the name of the company ‘Apple Computers’.

Adobe – Came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.

CISCO – Its not an acronym but the short for San Francisco.

Google - The name started as a jokey boast about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named ‘Googol’, a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders – Stanford grad students Sergey Brin and Larry Page resented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to ‘Google’
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Who is Bianca Ryan?

Bianca Ryan
Bianca Taylor Ryan (born September 1, 1994) is a prodigious American singer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who was the winner of the first season of NBC’s America’s Got Talent.

Bianca Ryan Website is her website which has her biodata, photos and a forum.

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eBay Belgium Ads

ebay Belgium ads
A closed down store with closing down sign might make you feel sad, depressing or you might say that it looks damn ugly. Check this out what eBay do to those closed down store, sticking their advertisement on the closed down stored tagged “Moved to eBay”.
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