Today is when Google celebrates its 25th birthday. In 1998 two computer science students got together and used the Python programming language to search the internet. 25 years later and the company’s search is used on almost every continent on the globe.
The internet is basically a network of connected computers, computers with work, play and thoughts.
In the video that I have pasted here Bill Gates tries to explain what the internet is to David Letterman. I love this video because Gates is enthusiastic about the internet and Lettermen is the skeptic. The video was recorded three years before Google was created and it was I think the creation of Google that gave insight to the skeptics like David Letterman to the real power of the internet which, is people. People power the internet, with ideas, sites, services, codes anything they can imagine it seems can be created accessed and made better.
One thing I try very hard not to be skeptical about is the ability of life to create, build and amaze. The internet is one of many things that life has made and it is pretty cool.
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