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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. Server-side software infrastructure – virtually all modern web applications rely on virtualization, scaling, load-balancing, and database technologies, among many others. 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. After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets?