Amazing, isnât it, how microscopic organisms such as cold and flu germs can lay low hulking omnivores like us? Iâve been down with flu for the past two weeks. It has changed everything about me, from my personality âIâve been as dull as dry cleanerâs cardboardâ to my appetite, which right now is a one-trick pony.
Twitter was first called status until the group looked in the dictionary for names and found twitter which fit it perfectly. The original product name was twttr. The project work began on March 21, 2006, when Dorsey published the first Twitter message at 12:50 PM (PST): just setting up my twttr. The prototype for twitter was tested as an internal service for Odeo employees but later launched publically in July 2006.
The World Wide Web and its HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), one of the languages used to communicate across the internet, triggered a new way of sharing information. The World Wide Web was released to the public by CERN in 1993, launching entire industries and revolutionising old ones. Twenty years on, we take a look at the World Wide Web and the broader changes we have seen courtesy of the internet, a network of networks which includes email and instant messaging services.