It's cool to know that many of the internet sites that you often visit everyday were created in simple spaces like a dorm room, garage, bed room or a small home office.
This week, we did a little digging on the internet and here is a look at our Top 5 picks:
#1 Facebook
Founder: Mark Zuckerberg
Location of birth: Dorm room
The idea and development of Facebook started in this dorm room. Initially Mark's appetite for hacking into Harvard's University school system and acquiring pictures of students to construct a "hot or not" site got him into a heap of trouble. The incident (which harvard later dropped charges) helped create the largest social site we see today.
#2 YouTube
Founder: Chad Hurley
Location of birth: His office
After that fateful dinner party, where Hurley and Chen wanted to create a simpler way to share their videos of the night, they immediately went to work at the office creating the answer. “In February, we started developing the product,” says Hurley. “In May, we had our first public preview. And in December, we officially launched YouTube. By that time we were serving over three million videos a day.”
#3 Google
Location of birth: In a garage
Founders: Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Larry and Sergey started on a name BackRub. But Larry and Sergey decide that the BackRub search engine needs a new name. After some brainstorming, they go with Google — a play on the word “googol,” a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. The use of the term reflects their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.
#4 eBay
Founder: Pierre Omidyar
Location of birth: In the home of Pierre Omidyar
There aren’t many sites on the Internet that can claim the success that eBay has enjoyed. The first name eBay used was Echo Bay Technology. When the company tried to register the domain name echobay.com, they found that it was already in use. They shortened the name to eBay.com and the Website was born.
#5 Digg
Founder: Kevin Rose
Location of birth: Apartment
David Prager (The Screen Savers, This Week in Tech), originally wanted to call the site “Diggnation”, but Kevin Rose wanted a simpler name. He chose the name “Digg”, because users are able to “dig” stories, out of those submitted, up to the front page. The site was called “Digg” instead of “Dig” because the domain name “dig.com” had been previously registered by the Walt Disney Internet Group.
So there you have it, big influential websites of today seen through the eyes of the past. Pretty cool right?
What's your two cents? Let us know what you think in comments section below!
This week, we did a little digging on the internet and here is a look at our Top 5 picks:
Founder: Mark Zuckerberg
Location of birth: Dorm room
The idea and development of Facebook started in this dorm room. Initially Mark's appetite for hacking into Harvard's University school system and acquiring pictures of students to construct a "hot or not" site got him into a heap of trouble. The incident (which harvard later dropped charges) helped create the largest social site we see today.
Founder: Chad Hurley
Location of birth: His office
After that fateful dinner party, where Hurley and Chen wanted to create a simpler way to share their videos of the night, they immediately went to work at the office creating the answer. “In February, we started developing the product,” says Hurley. “In May, we had our first public preview. And in December, we officially launched YouTube. By that time we were serving over three million videos a day.”
Location of birth: In a garage
Founders: Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Larry and Sergey started on a name BackRub. But Larry and Sergey decide that the BackRub search engine needs a new name. After some brainstorming, they go with Google — a play on the word “googol,” a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. The use of the term reflects their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.
Founder: Pierre Omidyar
Location of birth: In the home of Pierre Omidyar
There aren’t many sites on the Internet that can claim the success that eBay has enjoyed. The first name eBay used was Echo Bay Technology. When the company tried to register the domain name echobay.com, they found that it was already in use. They shortened the name to eBay.com and the Website was born.
Founder: Kevin Rose
Location of birth: Apartment
David Prager (The Screen Savers, This Week in Tech), originally wanted to call the site “Diggnation”, but Kevin Rose wanted a simpler name. He chose the name “Digg”, because users are able to “dig” stories, out of those submitted, up to the front page. The site was called “Digg” instead of “Dig” because the domain name “dig.com” had been previously registered by the Walt Disney Internet Group.
So there you have it, big influential websites of today seen through the eyes of the past. Pretty cool right?
What's your two cents? Let us know what you think in comments section below!
Sweet Jesus. Look at Zuckerberg's room! What a pig :S
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