COMM 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gmail, Initial Public Offering, Google Drive
28 Apr 2014
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3 transitions: mainframes to the personal computer, sage computer was so large that people had to walk down aisles, stand-alone computers to internetwork pcs, pcs to the cloud, google chrome chrome book. You can do everything on the web. Everything can be saved to the web won"t ever worry about losing your work. No virus protection needed: the cloud. Metaphor clouds are incredibly complex, but can"t predict how it"s going to unfold (carleton email) Where is everything stored: online big microsoft computer, no one knows exactly where, what is google, founding. 2 men started out in a garage built a search engine: philosophy/culture. To organize the worlds information to make it universally accessible and useful . Don"t be evil : to remind them on how they don"t want to do this just for the money, quirky hiring techniques. Unique interview questions that makes you think: search. Google"s webpage is a lot cleaner than earlier search pages.
