jerry yang... who?!!!
Yahoo to replace Yang… this is a real shocker. I remember in varsity (USM)… some of my faculty mates were busy sending ‘online flowers’ to their gfs from the faculty lab using Yahoo mail. I only had the USM email account (at first)… in boring text fonts and had to queue to use the terminals. These faculty dudes were already into Yahoo so fast… this was in 1995… the excitement was everywhere… electrifying.
Net connection is only found in varsity labs or some funky internet cafes outside campus back then… with network speeds not much different from now. I just can’t understand why Malaysia cannot improve the broadband speed and move with the times. Chat rooms and bulletin boards just mushroomed… everyone wanted to ‘talk’ with everyone else… its like using the telephone for the first time. My Yahoo account is almost 10 years now!
Anyway, before Google… Yahoo had the ultimate search engine… I suppose it was also driven by the porn site searches and just the dotCom excitement... to be IN the ‘web’. My favourite use of Yahoo in campus is to search for anything GIS… lotsa GIS technical articles and online lessons over the web (mainly from US). These tech articles, news and tips were so valuable… I aced my GIS projects… often leaving others bewildered at my IT skills… standing on the shoulder of giants... :-)
posted by geotone @ 11/18/2008
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1 Comments:
Hai,
I remember then using another email provider ... Excite which died off after a while and ; is now back . My Yahoo email address is 12 years old now and still active. I use it mainly for registration on sites I do not totally trust (doesn't have to be porn L0L).
Things have really changed since then. Now I use a skype phone that does not even require to be using a computer. It is free and acts as a normal phone. I can make phone calls across the globe and it is free !
As for Malaysia, we have all suffered "the Streamyx", opening up the wi-max to new players made me hope too high until I have seen the new commers with prices not far from TM's ADSL rates. Lame I would say ...
There are indications that the Malaysian government is pushing for higher speeds indeed, bu not sure when it would see the day light. I speculate by the end of 2010.
Until then GIS is fun!
Cheers.
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