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Web History Book; Find Out Who Owned Your Domain!

So many people might not know that there is a service that is saving web pages since 1996 and is like a history book of websites.

The following pages might load slow, be patient.

You can see the old Facebook:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040212031928/http://www.thefacebook.com/

Facebook started as thefacebook.com because facebook.com was taken and you can see here what was on facebook.com:
http://web.archive.org/web/20000823042335/http://www.facebook.com/

They bought facebook.com in 2005 for $200,000!!!

Here you can see how simple Yahoo looked like back in 1996:
http://web.archive.org/web/19961017235908/http://www2.yahoo.com/

Microsoft:
http://web.archive.org/web/19961020014044/http://www.microsoft.com/
(Pretty good for 1996 though)

Or baby Google:
http://web.archive.org/web/19981111184551/http://google.com/

Google, same year, 1996:
http://web.archive.org/web/19981202230410/http://www.google.com/

Here is Digg:
http://web.archive.org/web/20041211042536/http://digg.com/

And twitter:
http://web.archive.org/web/20061006030354/http://twitter.com/

You can also see here that some guy owned code-head.com but he gave up on it:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010719161538/http://www.code-head.com/

As you probably know by now the site is archive.org.

Enjoy

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Happy New Year

Happy new year everyone and I hope this will be a great new year full of great things for you.

Did you know the new year was delayed for 1 second?

Apparently earth is slowing down turning around it’s axis

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My favorite TED talk

Watch all of it

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Decorating Python’s sys.stdout

Try this:

class stdoutflip:
 
    def __init__(self, sys):
        self.stdout = sys.stdout
        sys.stdout = self
 
    def write(self, txt):
        txt = list(txt)
        txt.reverse()
        self.stdout.write(''.join(txt))
 
 
class stdoutupper:
 
    def __init__(self, sys):
        self.stdout = sys.stdout
        sys.stdout = self
 
    def write(self, txt):
        self.stdout.write(txt.upper())

To test it do this:

out = stdoutupper(stdoutflip(sys))

Now try printing stuff:

print "Hello Python!"

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They are going to be just a monitor, a touch screen monitor, there will be a keyboard on the screen if you want to type anything, there will be no keyboard, mouse or touch pad.
Probably in the next 5 years they will be everywhere, you might not be able to buy one of these either

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Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween, I still have to go get some treats I have so much work too but I decided to work on Saturday too, it’s great to be a freelancer!

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A PHP Competition

OK, here is the competition:

Write the shortest piece of PHP code to convert:
Lorem_ipsum_dolor_sit amet,_consectetur_adipisicing_elit

Into this:
Lorem_Ipsum_Dolor_Sit amet,_Consectetur_Adipisicing_Elit

There is no prize other than I will write a post about you
Leave a comment.

Update:
Chris wrote a perfectly working line of code for the first string I posted, but you will have to write one that will still work if there is a space in one of the words. I fixed the example.

Comments (9) Filed under: Fun, PHP, Programming Posted by: Codehead

Comparing Programming Languages

I just found this great tool and I thought I’d share it, it compares performance and memory usage in any two programming languages, it has a good list of languages too.

For example, this is the comparison between PHP and C:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=gcc&lang2=php

PHP vs Python:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=python&lang2=php

Python vs Ruby:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=python&lang2=ruby

C vs Java:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=gcc&lang2=java

And finally C vs C++:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=gcc&lang2=gpp

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