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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. It’s not publicly known exactly when Google began developing Chrome and Chromium, but it must have been late 2006 or early 2007 since Chrome launched in September 2008. 02 per Google search, and provided Yahoo for free.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Facebook went on become larger than even Google and Yahoo! History repeats itself. Don’t Stop Believing. Social Networking in Web 1.0: then bought GeoCities for $3.6

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

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. Thanks in advance!