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By the end of 1998, Google had an index of about 60 million pages Sounds like a marvelous challenge. Anyone have other similar "technological frontier then, hi
by ctdonath 15y ago
By the end of 1998, Google had an index of about 60 million pages
Sounds like a marvelous challenge. Anyone have other similar "technological frontier then, high-school science fair project now" type challenges? OPer notes BioCurious as one. A major factor in education is walking kids thru a subject from basic principles to state-of-the-art, recreating historical milestones along the way.
- jaylevitt 15y agoAOL in the late 1990's, minus the dialup itself. Content publishing: Weekend project. Rails, memcached and CloudFront and you're done. IM and Buddy Lists: 1.5 million simultaneous users doing n^2 pub/sub-type distributed transactions. Mail: 4,000 emails per second with live unsend and recipient read/unread status. I think PostgreSQL tops out in the millions of rows per second nowadays. Web caching/acceleration: pick your favorite proxy solution and configure it. Single sign-on: Form strategic partn-- Hey, you said technical challenge, not political.
- ippisl 15y agoBuilding mobile, handheld computer games(A 14 year's old did build an app game that got very high in the app store). opening a web shop. Building robots(at today's kid's levels). Designing really complex and fast digital circuits(using FPGA, and IP blocks). Building a global, scalable and complex database application(using something like MS lightswitch).