Monthly Archives November 2006

E-mail turns 35

Today very few would guess that e-mail might be as old as 35 years old. “Is it after or before Internet” – someone may ask. Well, if you can call 15 sites existing at that time an Internet, than after.

Back in 1965 Fernando Corbato and his acquaintances (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) developed software that allowed users to exchange messages. 6 years later Ray Tomlinson elaborated the first e-mail application. What he did was uniting the message exchange software with the application, capable of sending files. His invention was immortalized by the “ @ ” sign, that separated the domain and the destination address.

Ray Tomlinson’s first e-mail was a joyous discovery at that time. Mr...

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Short Guide on How to Choose a Reliable Link Partner

While artificial intelligence algorithms are still in their cradle stage of development, major search engines have adopted a method of sites’ indexing involving a different type of intellect activity. What is beyond search engine crawlers’ power, can always be performed by Internet users and makers. Among numerous filters search engines employ to select and classify sites, there are very few of those, executed by webmasters themselves. Link partner selection, is probably the most responsible and crucial of all them.

The old proverb says “Content is Power”, but the role of backlinks is now so vital, that it has become another powerful means driving your site to the desired top 10. For a search engine optimization rookie, gathering links might turn out to be a serious challenge...

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Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web 3.0: World Wide Web and its future

The need and the speed of information exchange in the modern world has reached those volumes, that allow us to speak about a new era of Internet development, making it suitable to sum up what we have witnessed and what we are to see in the near future. As new technologies and techniques are coming up, the attitude to the Internet also changes, requiring timely steps to be taken to stand the test of time and new trends. In this posting you will read basic characteristics of phenomena named web 1.0, web 2.0 and web 3.0.

In 1989 Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues suggested the programming language for World Wide Web, which was implemented and initiated the development of what today is known as Internet. As the Internet developed, Web 1...

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