At the end of the 20th century Silicon Valley industry titans like steve jobs and bill gates made a promise that would forever alter how we perceive the world it spans the globe like a superhighway it is called internet and you suddenly are part of a new mash of People Programs archives ideas the personal computer and the internet ushered humanity into the Information Age laying the groundwork for unlimited innovation at the dawn of the 21st century there would be a new revolution a new generation of young geniuses made a new promise beyond our wildest dreams. The idea that we take all the worlds information and make. Everyone limitless information Artificial Intelligence machines that would know what we wanted and would tend to our every need the technology would be beyond our imagine. Nations almost like magic yet the concept would be as simple as a single word search. This was the beginning of google and less than a decade later facebook they would make a new promise to humanity wha
A single word search. This was the beginning of google and less than a decade later facebook they would make a new promise to humanity what i think so interesting about google and facebook is they were founded at american universities Stanford University you had 2 students larry page and sergey brin decide they wanted to create the ultimate Search Engine for the internet across the country you had in the case of Facebook Mark zuckerberg who was a student at harvard decided he wanted to create a social media platform basically to meet girls and to make friends and hence we got facebook you never think that you could build this company or anything like that right because i got interested in. Building stuff because we thought it was cool it was all about promise it was all about the shiny future it was all about the free flow of information but there was also a certain idealism behind it i think that a company like google. We have the potential to make very big differences and big positiv
Engine page famously said the point of google to get people on to google and off of google out into the open web as quickly as possible and largely theyre really successful about that the success of google led to in many ways the success of the open web in this explosive growth in startups in innovation during that period google had developed this Incredible Technology called page rank unveiling what was known in the back row about them and it was your sleeps and bounds ahead of Services Like yahoo altavista and quickly became the clear winner in the space just from a Technology Basis and what page does is it spiders around the internet instead of being a Directory Service like yahoo was its taking pictures of web pages and analyzing the links between the web pages and using them to make some assumptions about relevance and so if youre looking for some history of Abraham Lincoln and theres a bunch of links to cross the web pointing to a particular site that must mean that this page is.
The shiny future was all about the free flow of information but there was also a certain idealism behind it. I think that a company like google we have the potential to make very big differences very big positive differences in the world and i think we also have an obligation as a consequence of that facebook and google started with a great idea and great ideals unfortunately there was also a very dark side the goal the letter it was it should make it our life where it is but certainly there is a Real Community that existed realized. Google handles 65 percent of all internet search in the u. S. And even more overseas. In the early days google was just a Search Engine the Search Engine was initially was a. Index to whats on the internet the internet was pretty small back then they had a better index than other indexes they were around theirs was not the 1st Search Engine page famously said the point of googles to get people on to google and off of google out into the open web as quickly
A consequence of facebook and google started with a great idea and great ideals unfortunately there was also a very dark side to goal though which are that it was it sure made it our lifes rarity but certainly there is a Real Community that existed realized. Google handles 65 percent of all internet search in the u. S. And even more overseas. In the early days google was just a Search Engine the Search Engine was initially was an index to whats on the internet the internet was pretty small back then they had a better index than other indexes they were around theirs was not the 1st Search Engine page famously said that the point of google is to get people on to google and off of google out into the open web as. Quickly as possible and largely they are really successful but that the success of google led to in many ways the success of the open web and this explosive growth in startups and innovation during that period google had developed this Incredible Technology called page rank unvei