Three facts from Tutorial 6

This week's tutorial seemed a little bit more interesting to me than the last one, so here are three facts that I learned or found interesting!

1). Mashup: A mashup is gathering information from two different web sites, putting them together and making a new web site. The new web site uses information from both sources! Sounds like I've seen this before, but didn't know what to call it! According to a study in 2007, more than 2,400 mashup sites exist!

2). Acronyms for text-based communication: I know most of them already, but some I had never heard of. For example, eg means evil grin, irl means in real life, fwiw means for what it's worth. These are just a few to name; I'm sure there are a lot more than that.

3). Facebook: Was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg as a closed network for college students. Mark Zuckerberg was a student at Harvard University at that time. I found this topic interesting because I didn't have any idea that the network used to be for college students only but was then later on opened up to the public. Facebook has undergone major changes since it started in 2004. In 2007, Microsoft bought a small interest in Facebook to be able to advertise on its web site.