Author: MrWalker
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GMail 9 Years Old, Who Knew
This April marks Gmail’s 9th birthday, and as year ten gets underway, it’s a good opportunity to look at how much has changed: the curse of the Bambino was broken, Martin Scorsese finally won an Oscar, and we stopped referencing Xena the Warrior Princess in our blogposts. And during that time, Gmail—and online communication as…
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Wayback Machine: Now with 240,000,000,000 URLs
Wayback Machine: Now with 240,000,000,000 URLs Today we updated the Wayback Machine with much more data and some code improvements. Now we cover from late 1996 to December 9, 2012 so you can surf the web as it was up until a month ago. Also, we have gone from having 150,000,000,000 URLs to having 240,000,000,000…
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Over $100 Million Pledged to Games on Kickstarter
On Kickstarter, Michael McGregor writes this on March 21, 2012: …. we would share an exciting stat: more than $100 million has been pledged to Games projects on Kickstarter, giving 1,476 new games the green light! Games Category Stats Total Dollars: $107.6 Million Successful projects: 1,476 Total Backers: 633,242 In the past four years, more…