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30th anniversary pac man google doodle4/18/2024 ![]() “The Web is the most impactful innovation of our time.” “There are very few innovations that have truly changed everything,” said Jeff Jaffe, CEO of the World Wide Web Consortium. The Web has also become a decentralized community, founded on principles of universality, consensus, and bottom-up design. Not to be confused with the internet, which had been evolving since the 1960s, the World Wide Web is an online application built upon innovations like HTML language, URL “addresses,” and hypertext transfer protocol, or HTTP. Whether you use it for email, homework, gaming, or checking out videos of cute puppies, chances are you can’t imagine life without the Web. Today, there are nearly 2 billion websites online. The Web would soon revolutionize life as we know it, ushering in the information age. By 1991, the external Web servers were up and running. Initially, Berners-Lee envisioned "a large hypertext database with typed links,"named “Mesh,” to help his colleagues at CERN (a large nuclear physics laboratory in Switzerland) share information amongst multiple computers.īerners-Lee’s boss allowed him time to develop the humble flowchart into a working model, writing the HTML language, the HTTP application, and WorldWideWeb.app- the first Web browser and page editor. Share your praise or pans in the comments below – and check out the Monitor's list of five games that would make better Google doodles than Pac-Man.This was how Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s boss responded to his proposal titled “Information Management: A Proposal,” submitted on this day in 1989, when the inventor of the World Wide Web was a 33-year-old software engineer. ![]() (Have you seen all of the "Easter eggs" littered across Google's many websites?) Nonetheless, Pac-Man got reader Lea Kim thinking: "Hmm. Please do stuff like this again, just incorporate a mute button :)"ĭon't expect to see many future Google Doodles quite like this one. I can't do anything else with sound because the game sound rides overtop of everything on every site that I go to. "It just sucks that the sound from the game stays on even when you leave the Google page. Monitor reader Lisa enjoys the creativity of incorporating Pac-Man into Google's logo, just not the noise. "Grrr - my 84 year old husband screwed up his computer trying to get rid of this mess," writes Yamahamama4. "The noise in the background follows me through every website! I don't wanna play it anymore!!" (And have you tried playing two-player?) But there is another sizable bloc of readers that wish Pac-Man would hurry off-screen and never come back. A decent percentage of commenters share similar anecdotes. "Office productivity down by 60%, bandwidth usage down by 80%, only page visited, Thuto is probably fudging those numbers a little, but his point is clear. "Reporting from South Africa," writes Monitor reader Thuto. Reading through the 50-plus comments left below our Friday story, seems we were right. Here at the Monitor, we joked that this clever birthday present to a true arcade classic would result in hundreds of thousands of lost man-hours as office productivity ground to a halt. ![]() Google had a big surprise yesterday: A fully playable Pac-Man 30th anniversary game built into its homepage. But you can keep playing the game for free. Update: Pac-Man has left Google's homepage.
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