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World Wide What?

7 March, 2013
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La inceputul anilor ’90, romanii erau la inceputul anilor de libertate.
Putin mai la vest, un cercetator britanic, Tim Berners Lee se ocupa cu lucruri un pic mai avansate: punea bazele world wide web-ului
In 20 mai 1991, cotidianul britanic The Sun scria pe prima pagina: World Wide What?

“I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the Transmission Control Protocol and domain name system ideas and—ta-da!—the World Wide Web… Creating the web was really an act of desperation, because the situation without it was very difficult when I was working at CERN later. Most of the technology involved in the web, like the hypertext, like the Internet, multifont text objects, had all been designed already. I just had to put them together. It was a step of generalising, going to a higher level of abstraction, thinking about all the documentation systems out there as being possibly part of a larger imaginary documentation system.”
–http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

Primul apel public cu un iPhone

5 March, 2013
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Steve Jobs – Starbucks prank 🙂
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd6dQmN-mPw

So when Jobs demonstrated Google Maps integration by searching for a Starbucks, finding a local store and then calling and ordering 4,000 lattes to go, the entire audience went wild. That prank call will probably go down in history as one of the more famous ones ever made, and Fast Company has tracked down the barista who took the call to get her comments on that groundbreaking latte order.
It turns out that the young lady who answered the call — coincidentally the first public phone call ever made on an iPhone — Ying Hang “Hannah” Zhang is still a barista at the same Starbucks. She didn’t know that it was Jobs making the prank call until after the event, when Apple fans began visiting the store and mentioning that the Apple CEO had playfully made the mass latte order.
Steve Jobs’ prank call to Starbucks lives on