Hicham Maged's blog Acquiring knowledge lead to the acquisition of power

Ever Wonder?

Assalam Alikom wa rahmat ALLAH
Peace and Blessings be upon you

Hello Everybody

Everyday we site in front of our computers to surf the internet for websites according to everybody's interest. However, did you ever wonder how those websites looks like in the very beginning?

Wayback Machine provides an answer for this curious question. There you'll find a huge archive for over 55 billion web pages, from 1996 to few months ago. Archives are listed according to the dates under each year, starting from 1996 up to 2005 until this post was written.

For example, this is how Blogger looks like in 1999. In case you don't know, blogger had started as a tiny company called Pyra Labs in 1999 before Google bought them in 2002, so in this screen shot - which I took when I visited the 1st page provided in the archive - you'll see at the far right the copyright as follows: Copyright (c)Pyra Labs Ltd.

So, why don't you take the journey back to the year 1996 and see how famous websites looks like? Maybe you discover that some of them we not born yet by 1996, however you'll find them in the following years.

Funny, isn't it? [ ]

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Related Links

• Wayback Machine
• Wayback Machine Hardware
• About Blogger

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Salam,
Hicham

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Adobe + Macromedia = Big Combo

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Hello Everybody

Yesterday, I went to Macromedia to install the latest flash player, when I noticed that the logo of the company display: "Adobe, formerly Macromedia"

I was surprised, so I went through the Help & Company sections of the site to discover that Adobe had bought Macromedia on December 5th, 2005.

Oh My God! What a merge! I'm really impressed for this kind merging. 1st of all, it's not my fault to tell you this news one month late, simply because this is not my career.

Even if this is not my career, I think that we are going to see new technologies for the PDF documents with Flash support in the near future. I think that new PDF documents will be introduced to the world in the near future. Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong but for sure this kind of merging shall bring something new to the world of Publishing, therefore we shall wait and see.

Welcome people to the world of Big Combo Companies "with/avec Salad" [ ]

Related Links

• Acquisition
• FAQ
• Press Release

Salam,
Hicham

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Flash yourself with Games for free

Assalam Alikom wa rahmat ALLAH
Peace and Blessings be upon you

Hello Everybody

Well, It has been a long time since I came here, but it's life; we always get busy & busy with many stuff to do.

Anyway, today I came here to tell you about Flash Games. It's a game package with a database for flash games, over 700 games! can you believe this? and it's all for free.

I'd download the package couple of months ago, and they are really cool. But to be honest with you, I didn't try all the games. The games included in the package are almost 98% free games, while the other 2% are demo.

The package is nice, and dose not contain any kind of virus at all. Finaly, you are free to update the package by adding/deleting games from it according to the links provided in the website.

Links

• For flash games lovers, you can download it from here

Salam,
Hicham

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