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Where to Find Truthful Web Hosting Reviews

Thursday, August 23rd, 2012

If you are looking for web hosting reviews, you will be happy to know that there are several places where you can find exactly what you are looking for. There are a lot of websites, forums, and blogs where reviews about the various web hosting service providers can be found. However, it is important to keep in mind that there are still some sites, forums, and blogs that are just marketing and promoting these web hosting service providers, which means that they have not really tried and tested out the services of the provider – they are just being paid to write reviews.
The good news is that there are still several websites that you can trust and depend on to provide you only with honest and truthful web hosting reviews. One of these websites is www.hostertalk.com. In this website, you will find not only the most important details about how you can choose the right web hosting service provider for your own personal or business site. You will also find only the best and the most recommended web hosting service providers being reviewed in this site. So as you can see, visiting this website will make your search for the best web hosting provider for your needs a lot easier.
When you take the time to visit the website of Hoster Talk, you will be presented with a list of the top 10 web hosting service providers as of the year 2012. The web hosting providers that you will find being honestly reviewed include FatCow, HostGator, Omnis, Hub, iPage, HostMonster, JaguarPC, BlueHost, Inmotion, and GoDaddy.com. With this site, you can rest assure that you will get only unbiased information as they have tried and tested the all of the services of each web hosting provider that they have reviewed.

A Brief Evolution of the Internet

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

If you’re reading this blog, you know how to use the Internet. That is, of course, unless you’re looking over someone’s shoulder. For the purposes of this post, we’ll run with the idea that you have at least a passing interest in the World Wide Web. Perhaps you’ve even been kicking around the idea of learning how to make your own website for free.

Whether you’re an Internet novice or on your way to creating a stunning site, learning the history of the Internet is important if we want to know where it is going. Here is a very brief history of what we lovingly refer to as “the net”:

1969: the first computers at UCLA and Stanford connect. Called Arpanet, the link supposedly crashed when the letter ‘g’ was types. What was the intended message? “Login”. In the same year, Unix, the parent of Linux and FreeBSD, was introduced.

1970: Arpanet grows and includes Harvard, MIT and BBN.

1971: Ray Tomlinson introduces email. Project Gutenberg is also introduced in 1971. The project is considered the birth of the eBook.

1972: Cyclades is introduced in France; a project very similar to Arpanet.

1973: Arpanet crosses the big pond for the first time, connecting with the University College of London.

1974: TCP/IP is born through a proposed inter-network.

1975: ‘Reply’ and ‘Forward’ options are added to email by John Vittal of the University of Southern California.

1977: the first PC Modem is introduced and sold.

1978: BBS (bulletin board system) is developed in Chicago. Also in 1978, the bane of the computer world, spam, is born.

1979: the first word-based multi-player game, MUD, is introduced. Usenet is created and introduced, allowing people from around the world discuss topics of interest.

1980: hypertext is used by scientists at The European Organization for Nuclear Research.

1984: DNS, or domain name servers, are created.

1987: there are now over 30,000 hosts on the Internet.

1988: Internet Relay Chat is launched and the first worm is released.

1989: AOL is released and the World Wide Web is on the horizon.

1991: the World Wide Web introduces its first web page.

1993: Mosaic allows non-geeks easier access to the Internet.

1995: the ‘net becomes commercialized with what will become eBay and Amazon.com. JavaScript is also launched.

1998: we are introduced to Google! and Napster.

2003: the world is introduced to VoIP and MySpace.

2004: The Facebook is used by college students for the first time.

2005: YouTube is launched.

2006: Twitter has users tweeting all over the world.

2007: Apple renews interest in mobile web browsing with the iPhone.

And that, in a nutshell, is a timeline of the history of the Internet. Interesting, isn’t it, to see how far we have come in such a short amount of time. The future will be an exciting place!