Can you believe its been 25 years since Google launched? I'm old enough to vividly remember searching for things on the web using Altavista, Lycos and Yahoo (which was more of a big directory than a search engine) and when Google hit the scene it was a revelation. This clean minimal search engine really worked! It felt like there was no corner of the internet it didn't have knowledge about. Google was cool back then, Gmail had an invitation system to sign up, all my friends were on Gtalk, Google Reader was great, Maps still is fantastic, Chrome was fucking fast, I used an Android device before I used an iOS device and Adwords was an easy way to make a few bucks off your blog. Now Google is one of the world's biggest companies and everything they do has a sheen of skepticism about it. They aren't cool. I'm actually a little afraid of them and their proposed Web Environment Integrity API makes me so sad. Who wants to guess what crap Google has in store for us in the next 25 years?
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