The Evolution of Computers and Internet

2001. Eight years back, i had given my tenth standard board exams. After that I started going to Ganpati stores in Vile Parle. I created my first email account, vyaskartik2001@yahoo.com. Since then I have been using vyaskartik2001 everywhere...2001 was the year my rendezvous with the internet started.

I used to go a lot to Ganpati stores, used to chat a lot...it was a craze then. Every Sunday after giving exams in my coaching classes would go straight to Ganpati stores. I also remember once I was there till around 11pm, mom had come to take me. Dad also had come couple of times from office to take me home with me.

After 12th I got a PC for myself at home. It was great feeling....my first PC...year 2003.I used dat Intel Pentium 4 for four years and in Nov 2007 I bought this Laptop from which I am writing this post. I remember having a 56k dial up modem at home to access internet and how it was almost impossible to view videos online and now I am sitting in my bedroom using wifi and 1Mbps speed internet to see videos instantly on youtube.

Back then in 2001, Internet was mainly used for email, browsing and chatting. Microsoft was the dominant company in all respects. Slowly with time Google has come up by leaps and bounds. They have the no 1 search engine in the world, Google word has become synonymous with searching on the internet.

Google also have the best email service in the world, gmail. A social networking website orkut which comes only second to facebook. Google has ample other application like Google maps, Google books, Google images, Google groups, offcourse blogger in which I am blogging rite now is also a Google product, you can also store photos online with Picasa again from google and how can u forget You Tube!!! again it belongs to google.

Google is the present and google is the future.Recently Windows launched Windows 7, desktop based operating system. There was not much fuss about it. Google has launched its own operating system based on its browser, Google chrome OS, its just awesome, everything on the cloud.The future of computing...

Also google launched Google wave...a online real time interaction application. You can chat, share documents, conduct polls, collaborate and work together online and much more. It is still in preview mode and is expected to get better.

Google also have Android OS, an open source operating system for mobile phones and it is giving a good run for their money to Apple iPhone. Google is just looking to dominate each and every perspective of our digital life.

I hope after 10 years or so when I come back to read this post...Google will be the dominant company in the world...I will remember me sitting in my bedroom in Bangalore writing this post while eating maggie...(@bhakti cook does not come sunday eve..:P)