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Why Google Fiber? Moat-widening Endeavor & Future of Computing.

Tech Zulu Event

Computers still need web browsers to power HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and many other core web technologies. So they skipped over those steps of the value chain, and purchased Android in 2005 (launched in 2008) to backwards integrate to the OS layer. Operating system (OS) – computers need an OS to provide a user interface.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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That means, the Web server has to deal with the same load as with a GET request , it just deletes the content portion (the compelety formatted HTML page) when responding, after counting its size to send the Content-Length response header. But: the script invoked gets completely processed, just the output is trashed.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

Both Sides of the Table

Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). Video is the new HTML.” Back then there were “email forwards.” He thinks the very nature of video is changing.

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