[NPMUG] Gmail is 5 .... and Apple is 33 .... as of April 1, 2009

[Dave Sevick]

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/gmail-turns-5.html

Gmail turns 5
Thursday, April 02, 2009 6:13 PM
Posted by Todd Jackson, Gmail Product Manager

Five years ago yesterday, Gmail starting giving people a gig. What  
started as an internal tool for Google employees is now used by tens  
of millions of people around the world in 52 languages.

In honor of the occasion, you may have noticed a little cake on the  
Gmail homepage today.



We wanted to put it there yesterday, but given that Gmail launched on  
April Fool's day 2004 and has a history of joking around on April 1st  
since then, we did something else instead.

In all seriousness, we want to give a big thank you to all of you who  
use Gmail every day, to those who've been around since the beginning,  
to those who were using an AJAX app before the term AJAX was popular,  
to those who started chatting right in your email and then video  
chatting a couple years later, to those who changed your theme on day  
one, and to those who have turned on some of the 43 experimental Gmail  
Labs features (and put up with the occasional bugs they  
introduce)...we couldn't have gotten here without you. Thanks.
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Happy 33rd birthday, Apple Inc!
Wednesday, April 01, 2009 - 08:43 AM EDT
Apple Inc. is 33 years old today!

TIME Magazine's 80th anniversary issue featured a look back over 80  
years in a piece titled "80 Days That Changed the World," published on  
March 31, 2003. Lev Grossman wrote about one such day that changed the  
world, the founding of Apple Computer, Inc. on April 1, 1976:

They were two guys named Steve, so Steve Jobs was called Steve and  
Steve Wozniak went by Woz. At 25, Wozniak was the technical brains.  
Jobs, 21, was the dreamer with a knack for getting others to dream  
along with him. They had gone to the same high school, and in the hazy  
years after graduation (both were college dropouts) a shared interest  
in electronics brought them together. Jobs didn't yet have his own  
place, so when their formal partnership began, the decision was made  
in a bedroom at his parents' ranch house in Los Altos, Calif.

Most computers in 1976 were room-size machines with Defense Department- 
size price tags, but Wozniak had been tinkering with a new design, and  
his computer was different. It wasn't much to look at - just a bunch  
of chips screwed to a piece of plywood - but it was small, cheap and  
easy to use, and Jobs had noticed the stir it caused when they took it  
to a local computer club. "He said, 'We'll make it for 20 bucks, sell  
it for 40 bucks!'" Wozniak remembers. "I kind of didn't think we'd do  
it." Jobs came up with the name, inspired by an orchard in Oregon  
where he had worked with some friends: Apple Computer. "When we  
started the little partnership, it was just like, Oh, this will be  
fun," Wozniak says. "We won't make any money, but it'll be fun."

They didn't go out and celebrate that day. Woz wouldn't even quit his  
day job designing chips for calculators at Hewlett-Packard until  
months later, after Jobs had sold his Volkswagen bus for seed money.  
Nobody, not even Jobs, saw what was coming next: that Apple would  
create the look and feel of every desktop in the world and start our  
love affair with the personal computer.

Full article here.










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