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what percentage of breakout success storieson the Internet did NOT start as hacker projects? Facebook, google, yahoo, etc. All started that way.
by webwright 19y ago
what percentage of breakout success storieson the Internet did NOT start as hacker projects? Facebook, google, yahoo, etc. All started that way.
- antiismist 19y agoAs counterpoints, myspace, flickr, and digg were not hacker projects. edit: removed google from the above list.
- webwright 19y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google Hacker project: "Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page, a Ph.D. student at Stanford.[1] In search for a dissertation theme, Page decided to explore the mathematical properties of the World Wide Web, understanding its link structure as a huge graph.[2] His supervisor Terry Winograd agreed and Page focused on the problem of finding out which web pages link to a given page, considering the number and nature of such backlinks to be valuable information about that page (with the role of citations in academic publishing in mind).[2] In his research project, nicknamed "BackRub", he was soon joined by Sergey Brin, a fellow Stanford Ph.D. student and close friend, whom he had first met in the summer of 1995 in a group of potential new students which Brin had volunteered to show around the campus.[2]"
- pg 19y agoFlickr was sort of a hacker project, in that like Blogger it was a side project of a group who thought they were working on something else.
- antiismist 19y agoIt depends on how you define a hacker project. That is a fair characterization if you say that a hacker project is something that doesn't come out of a normal business process, regardless of the corporate structure that surrounds the people hacking away on it.