September 19, 2008 / 2 Comments
I just received a letter notifying me that tapes containing data with my information on it were "lost" by BNY Mellon’s archive services vendor. I figured I would make mention of this because it is somewhat technical. I would assume that they are using some sort of encryption routine to protect the data on the tapes. Chances are that these tapes were lost or misfiled. Who knows. The data is most likely unrecoverable but it just goes to show… Even the big boys make mistakes. They do, however, graciously offer 90 days of service from a credit monitoring company. Thanks BNY Mellon!
September 2, 2008 / 4 Comments
Here is something odd I found with Google Chrome.
Open Chrome
Go to “google.com”
Middle click maps at the top and see the distorted map on the new tab.
What causes this? Google how well did you review your code. I know it’s a beta … but I expect better from Google 🙂 It works fine when visiting the maps site directly or refreshing.
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September 2, 2008 / 0 Comments
It’s very interesting to see what the web was like then and now. Big sites like FaceBook.com and others have been owned by other companies and have looked very different.
Check out a list of the top five web sites on the Internet (as rated by Alexa.)
Yahoo went through many changes throughout the years.
October 17, 1996
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Feb 10, 1998
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Jan 22, 2003
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Google didn’t really change too much throughout its life thus far. This may be a reason people love Google so much, beside the obvious reasons of course.
Nov 11, 1998
Strange! The first link was to “google.stanford.edu” and the second to “alpha.google.com”. |
Dec 02, 1998
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Jan 01, 2001
Only 1.3 Billion Pages? Wow 🙂 |
3. YouTube
YouTube has definitely stood the test of time. I wish I would have created a site as popular as this!
May 16, 2005
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June 30, 2005
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Nov 25, 2005
Nothing too special here. Just them touting about how big a 4GB IPod is! |
4. Windows Live (Live.com)
It looks like live.com wasn’t always owned by Microsoft. Check these out!
Feb 11, 1998
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Jan 02, 2006
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Jan 21, 2007
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5. Facebook
It looks like the domain “Facebook.com” was originally owned by a company who created “software to manage your world” in 2003. Facebook was originally called “TheFaceBook” back in the day.
Jun 28, 2003
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Aug 12, 2005
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Oct 31, 2005
Facebook changes in to the site we all know and love. |
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I just received a letter notifying me that tapes containing data with my information on it were "lost" by BNY Mellon’s archive services vendor. I figured I would make mention of this because it is somewhat technical. I would assume that they are using some sort of encryption routine to protect the data on the tapes. Chances are that these tapes were lost or misfiled. Who knows. The data is most likely unrecoverable but it just goes to show… Even the big boys make mistakes. They do, however, graciously offer 90 days of service from a credit monitoring company. Thanks BNY Mellon!
