Vijay For Victory

London Underground turns 150 today and Google is celebrating with a unique doodle on its homepage.

Evolution of scroll bars from Apple and Windows.

Apple 

Microsoft

This picture shows just how far storage has come since the days of the humble floppy disk we all used to love!

All that data on one MicroSD card!

More on Storage Devices here

Thomas Edison tried two thousand different materials in search of a filament for the light bulb. When none worked satisfactorily, his assistant complained, “All our work is in vain. We have learned nothing.”

Edison replied very confidently, “Oh, we have come a long way and we have learned a lot. We know that there are two thousand elements which we cannot use to make a good light bulb.”

Learn from mistakes!

Modern number system, (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 ),is developed from Hindu-Arabic number system.

I have got a forward mail that depicts the evolution of modern number system from Tamil number system.

Thought this may not be true, it is definitely something interesting. Worth to check Logic behind Arabic numbers.

What can you accomplish in 360 hours?

The Chinese sustainable building company, Broad Group, has yet attempted another impossible feat, building a 30-story tall hotel in 360 hours, after building a 15-story building in a week earlier in 2011.

It can stand against 9 magnitude earthquake having 20 times purer air inside the building. And it is fully furnished.

The building was built over last Christmas time and finished before New Years Eve of 2012.

A small group of people dedicated to making the Web a safe, open and accessible tool for communication, collaboration and community came together to create Mozilla – and how that work continues today.

This is the story of Mozilla.