internet-history on S Anand

Cool abused amazon images

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 12:00:00 +0000

Domain name analysis

Sat, 01 Apr 2006 12:00:00 +0000

Domain name analysis. All two-letter and three-letter acronyms are taken. About 80% of 4-letter acronyms are taken. All common names are taken. 90% of common full names are taken. And more.

Best of Google Video

Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:00:00 +0000

Best of Google video.

Are the free Mac Minis for real

Tue, 20 Dec 2005 12:00:00 +0000

Are the free Mac Minis for real? Hardy tries to get one – and succeeds. But… is it worth it? Pretty good economic analysis.

Internet is shit

Sat, 23 Jul 2005 12:00:00 +0000

The Internet is shit.

Explosions in London

Thu, 07 Jul 2005 12:00:00 +0000

There are explosions all over London. We are fine.

Comments

Sri 7 Jul 2005 2:24 pm: Nice way to let your family
Krishnan 7 Jul 2005 4:14 pm: Hi Anand…The six ways of reading a book for free link is not working. Can u pls reload the link
S Anand 7 Jul 2005 4:45 pm: Did I have a link like that? Where?
Ram 8 Jul 2005 2:15 am: Those who are using IE may get a false icon saying it as a broken link,but with Firefox it works fine
S Anand 8 Jul 2005 5:44 am: Guys, what link are you talking about!?
Anonymous Hero 8 Jul 2005 7:22 am: I am using Firefox but the link is not working Ram. Can you tell me how it worked for you?
S Anand 8 Jul 2005 8:47 am: If this is a hoax on me, it is the best I have seen so far!
Anonymous Hero 8 Jul 2005 10:12 am: From my side, yes… I saw the other two comments and thought to myself, “Mate, that looks like a nice way to pull a fast one on Anand’ :-)
S Anand 8 Jul 2005 10:59 am: Well, seems like a day of hoaxes. I got a mail from a colleague in Finance asking me not to reclaim VAT. I never even tried!
Ram 9 Jul 2005 3:44 pm: From where can we get Free e-books ? If anyone knows please post it here or mail me
Dhar 10 Jul 2005 1:58 am: Depends on what kind of e-books you are looking for. If you want novels, you could check out http://www.greylib.align.ru/
S Anand 10 Jul 2005 11:38 am: The torrent network has plenty. Try the BitLord client.
Dhar 11 Jul 2005 3:46 pm: And the sites: torrentspy.com and thepiratebay.org/. What I like the most about thepiratebay is their response to legal threats (http://thepiratebay.org/legal.php)
Anonymous 12 Jul 2005 9:41 am: guess the link that was mentioned corresponds to the june 17th entry at http://www.geocities.com/root_node/articles/London_2005.html and mirc is a good place for ebooks.
S Anand 12 Jul 2005 11:04 am: Oh, OK.

April fool

Fri, 01 Apr 2005 12:00:00 +0000

April fool.

Google domains

Wed, 02 Feb 2005 12:00:00 +0000

Google domains is next, possibly leading into site hosting with 1GB space, and linkages with Blogger.

Comments

Bhuvan 2 Feb 2005 12:00 pm: nice to have you back Anand
S Anand 2 Feb 2005 12:00 pm: Font size of comments? Or the whole page? The latter can be increased through View - Text Size - Larger
Sumeer 2 Feb 2005 12:00 pm: can you do something about the font sizes

Google Games

Fri, 13 Aug 2004 12:00:00 +0000

Google games

The best Google Answers

Mon, 02 Aug 2004 12:00:00 +0000

The Best Google Answers.

Terrorists use the Internet well

Tue, 27 Apr 2004 12:00:00 +0000

Terrorists use the Internet well.

Caltiger is dead

Wed, 23 Apr 2003 12:00:00 +0000

Caltiger is dead.

Comments

Ranabir 8 Mar 2011 9:43 am: Caltiger was a company which brought internet for common.. I don’t know how and why it is dead, but it is… I was in class 7 that time when caltiger guys came to our school and gave us a floppy containing something , I was not having a computer at my home that time … but one of my senior had it .. so he took it from me and used it .. and then returned it to me.. :) Now I know what he did with the disk and the password page… But whatever happened is happened.. caltiger must rise again.. I would love to support it once again
jose 3 Jun 2012 7:56 am: Long live caltiger, it was every indian’s first internet access opportunity.
Joginder singh 12 Feb 2019 9:30 am: We are indebted to India’s first people’s internet service. They will be legends forever

Vote swapping site declared legal

Sun, 09 Feb 2003 12:00:00 +0000

Vote swapping site declared legal via slashdot

Captchas

Wed, 11 Dec 2002 12:00:00 +0000

The NY Times on ‘captchas’. At the time of Turing, we were wondering if computers would pass the Turing Test. Today, these captchas stop computer programs from fooling us into thinking they’re humans. We’ve come a long way! via missing matter

Internet on flights

Mon, 09 Dec 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Insight from a NY Times article on how the Internet can be accessed from flights: the reason you shouldn’t use a laptop on a flight during take-off and landing is not because of electrical interference; it is that the laptop could be a dangerous loose flying object in case of turbulence. Now, that makes more sense.

Kiruba Shankar interviews Google

Tue, 26 Nov 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Kiruba’s interview with Google. Nice questions! And good to see the post on MetaFilter. via MetaFilter

Drinking bug juice

Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Drinking bug juice. via RobotWisdom

Blogspamming

Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Blogspamming: the new phenomenon. It works only if you have a referral log, and look at it. Unfortunately for me, thanks to my crazy domain hosting service, I am blogspam-immune. via kuro5hin

Domains and hosting

Wed, 23 Oct 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Anita’s article on domains and hosting.

How Google answers works

Thu, 17 Oct 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Good article on how Google Answers works. Unfortunately, the guy who wrote it was fired from Google Answers. (Incidentally, this Fortune article mentions that Google makes over $100 mn a year. That’s incredible!) via GoogleBlog

‘A frequent visitor’ wrote in asking if I meant ‘guy’ as in ‘guy or girl’, because the person who wrote it is a girl. I didn’t know that. Thanks! (Wonder if that re-inforces the stereotype of the female librarian…)