Google began in 1996 as a project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Larry and Sergey were both studying at Stanford University California. In their research project they came up with a plan to make a search engine that ranked websites according to the number of other websites that linked to that site (and ultimately came up with the Google we have today). Before Google, search engines had ranked sites simply by the number of times the search term searched for appeared on the webpage, and the duo set out to make a more “aware” search engine. Read the rest of this entry

Vampires are everywhere these days. The new vampire film “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” broke box office records, taking in over $70 million and may end up being one of the largest openings in history. The film is based on the best-selling “Twilight” series, which of course joins a long list of other vampire-themed best-sellers dating back decades.The public’s thirst for vampires seems as endless as vampires’ thirst for blood.

Modern writers of vampire fiction, including Stephenie Meyer, Anne Rice, Stephen King and countless others, have a rich vein of vampire lore to draw from. But where did the modern idea of vampires come from? The answer lies in the gap between science and superstition. Read the rest of this entry

Do you remember your first time? Your first time listening to an MP3, i mean. For me it was a U2 song, leaked from the not-yet-released Pop album.

I had to install something called WinAmp to play it, it took forever to download on my crappy modem connection, and the song wasn’t that great.I didn’t realise it at the time, but i was listening to the future.

The rise of MP3 has been staggering. Amazingly, the portable MP3 player is just ten years old - and the MP3 format wasn’t even published until five years before that. But MP3’s world domination wasn’t guaranteed. In fact, the whole thing was nearly canned in 1991. So where did it come from, and how did it become such a big deal? Read the rest of this entry

The tradition of the New Year’s Resolutions goes all the way back to 153 B.C. Janus, a mythical king of early Rome was placed at the head of the calendar.With two faces, Janus could look back on past events and forward to the future. Janus became the ancient symbol for resolutions and many Romans looked for forgiveness from their enemies and also exchanged gifts before the beginning of each year.

The New Year has not always begun on January 1, and it doesn’t begin on that date everywhere today. It begins on that date only for cultures that use a 365-day solar calendar. January 1 became the beginning of the New Year in 46 B.C., when Julius Caesar developed a calendar that would more accurately reflect the seasons than previous calendars had. Read the rest of this entry

Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California. Formed in 1996, the band has sold more than 50 million albums and won two Grammy Awards.It achieved mainstream success with its debut album, Hybrid Theory, Its following studio album, Meteora, continued the band’s success.

In 2003, it was named as the sixth greatest band of the music video era and the third best of the new millennium .It is a popular band, and hundreds, if not thousands, download music videos from the group every day. If you are one who loves to watch music videos of this group, take some time to learn a little more in-depth information about the group and its members. Read the rest of this entry

Like America itself, the jolly figure we call Santa Claus is a melting pot of cultures, blending elements of folklore with the fantastical.Santa Claus the man is actually loosely rooted in fact, though he hasn’t always looked the way he does today, having evolved from a gift-giving Catholic saint who lived during the third century.

The Protestant Reformation and the emigration of European traditions to America morphed that pious figure into the red-suited character that is now one of the most famous images in the world, complete with his iconic army of elves and a magical transportation system. Read the rest of this entry

Apple has proven to be one of the major players in the consumer electronics industry. Having established their name as a company who designs their products to be trendy, functional and innovative, they have released yet another gadget that has been and continues to be a big hit.

The Apple iPhone is a small and light device with multimedia capabilities and also functions as a quad-band mobile phone, which supports GSM EDGE and is Internet-enabled.You can use it to talk, e-mail, send text messages, browse the Internet, take pictures, watch TV shows and movies, listen to music, get directions and store personal information. Apple’s iPhone, introduced to consumers in 2007, became an all-in-one technological device geared toward people on the go in the fast-paced 21st century. Read the rest of this entry

Heres a brief history of Internet, from the first email to the first uploaded youtube video.

What is the mysterious link that connects an “Archie Comics”, “Broken Laser Pointer” & “San Diego zoo” ???, answer is all the three have played a major role in moulding the internet in the past. Wanna know how? Read the whole article and find it out yourself.

The first email

In late 1971 Ray Tomlinson, an engineer working on a time-sharing system called Tenex, combined two programs named Cpynet and SNDMSG in order to send the first ever network email. It had been possible to send email from one user to another on a single computer for nearly 10 years but Tomlinson was the first to use the primitive Arpanet to send text from one computer to another. Read the rest of this entry

Has anyone heard of Stanislav Petrov?
Probably not—but you may very well owe him your life. He is not a super hero or anything, but he is the man who saved the world from a disaster.

Petrov, a former member of the Soviet military, didn’t actually do anything but that’s precisely the point.
In 1983, Petrov held a very important station: As lieutenant colonel, he was in charge of monitoring the Soviet Union’s satellites over the United States, and watching for any sign of unauthorized military action.

This was the Cold War era, and suspicions were high; on September 1, the Soviet Union had mistakenly shot down a Korean aircraft it had believed to be a military plane, killing 269 civilians, including an American Congressman. The Soviet Union believed that the United States might launch a missile attack at any moment, and that they would be forced to respond with their own arsenal of nuclear weapons. Read the rest of this entry

Joe Chedburn, a self-confessed geek, was just 16 when he came up with the idea to write an online game focused on crime.Torn, which is text-based and has no graphics, grew quickly and now has around 41,000 active users with over 1.3 million account holders.Although the game is free to play users can pay £3 every month to receive extra points and status.Most players are willing to pay enabling the site to make around £50,000-a-month. Joe, from Frome, Somerset, is now a millionaire at the age of 21.
He said: “I suppose when I was younger my parents used to tell me off for spending too much time on my computer but they are quite happy with what I am doing now. Read the rest of this entry