By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
Looking for a refresher course on how Google began? This beautifully animated video of G’s illustrious history kind of illuminates how many incredible leaps they’ve made in such a short time. Sometimes I forget its only been 12 or so years since this company existed, and that Gmail was introduced in 2004. I can’t imagine what my life was like before it… Anyways, lots of fun little surprises that remind how quickly innovation happens these days.
The geek have officially inherited the Earth, as was prophesied in Psalms 37:7 (more or less) so many bearded men ago. It’s a fairly recent thing, having happened somewhere between Google’s ascent to ubiquity, the second installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the eyebrow-raising popularity of Weird Al’s White & Nerdy. And since history is told by the…
Come with me, friends, to another time. Let’s say 1998ish. Ross and Rachel rule the airwaves, ER is hailed as the Best Drama Evar. As the sun sets on Seinfeld, critics mourn its passing, proclaiming that we’re not likely to see a show of its brilliance ever again.
I watched an episode of Seinfeld yesterday. It’s still funny, despite the canned…
I sincerely hope I made every attempt to be fair and honest and if I left off a film you love, please know that it was not with malice and there are only ten spots. I even split them into two genres because taking any of these off the list kind of made my heart hurt. Also, feel free to…
So we here at popten got together and assembled a gigantic list of our favorite albums of the past decade. Then we voted on each others choices. It is amazing how wide a variety of listening styles your trusty pop culture gurus have. I’ve assembled the top vote-getters into a trusty A to Z list. Albums are in order by…
Clearly, this decade has offered much in the way of hip-hop evolution, even though many purists and true schoolers argue that the street music has been gentrified, and diluted to an almost unrecognizable form. Blah. It’s still hip hop the same way the Catera is still a Cadillac. Things change. And things have changed. Major.
(In no particular order)
10. Sorato. Whoa.…
Do we know if Sergei and Larry commissioned this, or if they’ve adopted it/shown it to the company?
I wonder if this is some motionographer’s attempt to get into Google!