Internet users worldwide reaches two billion!
Posted on January 29, 2011 by Budi Putra in Tech
Welcome to the Planet of the Internet! With the world’s population exceeding 6.8 billion, at least two billion people already connected to the Internet. It means “nearly one person in three surfs online.”
Source: PhysOrg
APEC prepares Next-Generation Broadband by 2020
Posted on October 31, 2010 by Budi Putra in Tech
I like this ambitious project. Like others, I always believe that high-quality network infrastructure will drive economic growth, too.
Asian and Pacific countries, including Indonesia, agreed on Sunday to help establish next-generation high-speed broadband networks in their region by 2020, overcoming the “digital divide” between rich and poor nations.
It said the broadband penetration rate stands at 0.7 percent in Indonesia and 2.8 percent in Peru, while it reaches 27.1 percent in the United States and 24.9 percent in Japan.
Internet should be an ubiquitous technology for every country. For every body. Hope this plan can help and make it happens.
Father of Internet encourages developers to create web apps
Posted on September 15, 2010 by Budi Putra in People
This is where the Web was born!
Posted on July 10, 2010 by Budi Putra in Featured, Tech
Tim Berners-Lee is the primary inventor of the World Wide Web, making his first proposal on it in March 1989. He wrote the original Web software in 1990 and made it available on the Internet in 1991.
Web architect David Galbraith wrote to Berners-Lee, looking for the exact location where the Web was invented. “The reason I’m interested in this is that recognizing the exact places involved in the birth of the web is a celebration of knowledge itself rather than belief, opinion or allegiance, both politically and spiritually neutral and something that everyone can potentially enjoy and feel a part of,” David wrote on his blog.
According to Berners-Lee:
I wrote the proposal, and developed the code in Building 31.
I was on the second (in the European sense) floor, if you come out of the elevator (a very slow freight elevator at the time anyway) and turn immediately right you would then walk into one of the two offices I inhabited. The two offices (which of course may have been rearranged since then) were different sizes: the one to the left (a gentle R turn out of the elevator) benefited from extra length as it was by neither staircase nor elevator.
The one to the right (or a sharp R turn out of the elevator) was shorter and the one I started in. I shared it for a long time with Claude Bizeau.
I think I wrote the memo there.
Since we should celebrate the people that matter like the inventor of the Web, this story is really worth telling. Thanks David for this great post!
Why the Internet won’t do to TV what it’s done to print
Posted on May 1, 2010 by Budi Putra in Media
TV is still in the game and no need to worry about the online media’s threats, thanks to the nature and business model itself.
(via @gfulgoni)
Twitter to launch its URL shortener, Amazon goes pro with Bit.Ly
Posted on April 15, 2010 by Budi Putra in Tech
URL shortener thing is really a big deal, thanks to the needs to the microblogging services, mobile phones and any kind of manual text-entry. It’s “a renaissance in the age of Twitter,” according to Danny Sullivan. URL shortening is a technique where a provider makes a web page available under a very short URL in addition to the original address.
Twitter has just announced that it will be launching its own URL shortener, while Amazon has launched it’s own shortened URL, amzn.to, powered by bit.ly’s new Pro service.
By the way, how useful of the URL shortener for you? Which shortening service did you use frequently?
25 years of .com domain names
Posted on March 15, 2010 by Budi Putra in Tech
This is a brief history of the Internet: Initiated by the ARPANET in 1969; the protocol used on the Internet called TCP/IP was developed in 1974; Domain Name System (DNS) designed by Jon Postel, Paul Mockapetris, and Craig Partridge in 1983; a Massachusetts computer systems firm registered the first .com Internet domain name on March 15, 1985; and Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Web in 1990.
First 10 .com domains:
- Symbolics.com – March 15, 1985
- BBN.com – April 24, 1985
- Think.com – May 24, 1985
- MCC.com – July 11, 1985
- DEC.com – Sept. 30, 1985
- Northrop.com – Nov. 7, 1985
- Serox.com – Jan. 9, 1986
- SRI.com – Jan. 17, 1986
- HP.com – March 3, 1986
- Bellcore.com – March 5, 1986
[via SFGate]
Internet is up for Nobel Peace Prize
Posted on March 11, 2010 by Budi Putra in Tech
Finally, Internet, the first non-human to be nominated for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, is among a record 237 individuals and organisations nominated. US President Barack Obama won last year’s 10m Swedish kronor ($1.4m) prize.
However,
It is unclear who would accept the prize if the internet were to win.
[via BBC]
18 interesting firsts on the Internet
Posted on March 9, 2010 by Budi Putra in Tech
Just discovered an interesting list, 18 first different things on the Internet [brief] history, thanks to the TechReaders site!
- The First Email: Ray Tomlinson sent first email and also made use of @ symbol in email addresses in 1971.
- The First Ever Domain Name: “symbolics.com” registered by computer manufacturer Symbolics (now obsolete) on 15th March 1985.
- The First SPAM Email Ever: Gary Thuerk sent spam email messages to 393 people on ARPANET on 3rd May 1978.
- The First Ever Mobile Phone with Internet Access Facility: Nokia 9000 Communicator (launched in 1996, Finland).
- The First Ever Website: Info.cern.ch which was launched in late 1990.
- The First Ever E-Commerce Website and Transaction: NetMarket that claims to process first ever secure transaction on the web on August 11, 1994.
- The First Ever Online Bank: Stanford Federal Credit Union that provides Online Internet Banking services to all of its customers in October, 1994.
- The First Ever Search Engine: WebCrawler.com which was launched in 1994.
- The First Ever Blog: Justin Halls is considered the first blogger who started a web diary in 1994. [The term webblog was introduced in 1997 which later led to “blog” in 1999].
- The First Ever Podcast: Dave Winer added audio content into the RSS feeds on January 11, 2001.
- The First Item Ever Sold on eBay: A broken laser pointer worth $14.83.
- The First Book Ever Sold on Amazon: Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought by Douglas Hofstadter [1995].
- The first edit on Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder when doing a test edit with text “Hello, World!”
- The First Ever Video on YouTube: “Me at the Zoo” video put by the the cofounder of YouTube Jawed Karim on April 23, 2005.
- The First Ever Message on Twitter: It was a demonstration message with text “just setting up my twttr” by the creator of Twitter, Jack Dorsey on 21st March 2006.
- The First Ever Voice Chat Service: Rocket Messenger.
- The First Ever Website Hacked: Federal websites that included US Department of Justic, U.S. Air Force, CIA, and NASA in 1990.
- The First Ever Social Network Site: Friendster.com which was launched in 2002.
Newsweek in 1995: Why the Internet will fail?
Posted on February 28, 2010 by Budi Putra in Media
Great find. A blog discovered an infamous Newsweek article [dating back to 1995] about the Internet “isn’t, and will never be, nirvana”.
Author Clifford Stoll wrote:The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.
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Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we’ll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.
[via Three Word Chant!]
The Internet nominated for Nobel Peace Prize. Why not?
Posted on February 7, 2010 by Budi Putra in Media
The Internet has been nominated to receive the Nobel Peace Prize this year, according to some reports, following a petition by the Italian version of Wired Magazine, which cited the Internet’s contributions to “dialogue, debate and consensus through communication”.
What do you think? How does the Internet contribute to the world and peace?A short history of Hotmail
Posted on January 7, 2010 by Budi Putra in Tech
Hotmail is my first e-mail ever, registered it a few months after attended a short course and internship on journalism in Tokyo, mid-1996 [still use it sometimes, but no longer my primary email now, since I already had a certain custom domain name]. However, I don’t want to blog here about my history in using Hotmail, but wanted to post a short history of Hotmail –a worth reading article written by Dick Craddock, Group Program Manager for Windows Live Hotmail.
Hotmail was born on July 4th, 1996 – the creation of a Silicon Valley startup founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith. It was one of the very first services to offer free web-based e-mail. Originally, Hotmail was spelled “HoTMaiL,” emphasizing its use of HTML for the web user interface. Hotmail became popular quickly, and by the end of 1997 already had millions of customers. Hotmail was acquired by Microsoft late in 1997 and was later integrated with another acquisition – the web-based calendar service, Jump. Hotmail continued to grow very quickly – reaching tens of millions of users in just a few years. Today, Hotmail has provisioned well over a billion inboxes and has several hundred million active users around the world.
The Hotmail service has gone through tons of changes since 1996. When Hotmail first started, we offered free e-mail with a 2 MB storage limit. Over time, we’ve steadily increased the storage limits to 2GB and 5GB. Today, we offer ever-growing storage, which means that you essentially never have to worry about storage limits again.
