Much like the Fountain of Youth (a legendary spring that reputedly restores the youth of anyone who swims in its waters) the cloud-based Google drive or GDrive has been the stuff of tech lore for the better part of the past ten years. Continue reading
On July 3rd, 1995 The Economist wrote “[i]n its audacious uselessness – and that of thousands of ego trips like it – lie the seeds of the Internet revolution…” to describe the “profound” fish tank webcam that had been set-up at the headquarters of Netscape Communications in mid-1994. This, among with another 3,000-4,000 sites, formed the beginning of what many people today can identify as the Internet and/or the World-Wide Web. In addition, this was one of the very first instances of something truly frivolous being shared on the high-speed computer network that over two billion people connect to on a daily basis. Continue reading
