Forget New Twitter. Check Out Old Facebook

By Scott Gilbertson

The tech press is abuzz,debating the merits and failures of the new (new new?) Twitter web and mobile designs.

If you’re like most, you aren’t even seeing Twitter’s new website just yet, so if you’d like to contemplate  something a bit more fun on a Friday morning, consider what Twitter might have looked like had it been around in 1997.

You might remember 1997, the head yearly days of web design — 1-pixel spacer images, animated gifs, tables with gray borders and a magical new idea called “cascading stylesheets.”

How would Twitter have looked in that world? We’ll never know,but thanks to a new art project dubbed “Once Upon” you can see what Facebook,YouTube and Google+ might have looked like had they been around in 1997. Once Upon was created by artists Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied, who describe the project as “three important contemporary web sites recreated with the technology and spirit of late 1997, according to our memories.”

That’s right, Facebook, YouTube and Google+ redesigned in the spirit and look of 1997. As an added bonus the demo site has been set up to limit bandwidth at a 1997-esque 8 kB/s so it loads just as painfully slow as it would have on dial up.

Naturally all three sites are“best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4.03 and a screen resolution of 1024×768pixels, running under Windows 95″ (that resolution actually seems a bit large for 1997, but that’s okay). If you can’t find a Windows 95 machine in the closet fear not, the demo site will work in any web browser that supports frames.

एक्छिन रमाइलो गरौ।।

मोबाइल म्यारिज ब्युरो

विदुर : “मैले ‘मोबाइल म्यारिज ब्युरो’ खोलेको छु । ०००० डायल गरी अविवाहित युवकले १, युवतीले २ र अभिभावकले ३ थिच्नुहोला ।” प्रश्न आयो : “दोश्रो विवाह गर्न चाहने चाँही के थिच्नु नि ?” विदुर : “दोश्रो विवाह गर्न चाहनेले पहिलोको घाँटी थिच्नु ।”


भेटे देखी बहुतै कम खान थालेको छु

प्रेमी: तिमीसंग भेटे देखी बहुतै कम खान थालेको छु । रक्सी खान छाडें, धुम्रपान गर्दिन …
प्रेमिका: हामी बीचको प्रेमले सबै कुरो बिर्साइदियो ?
प्रेमी: प्रेमले होइन, मायालु । पैंसाको अभावले ।

10 more words for GRE....

Here are 10 words for those who are preparing for GRE,

1. Bard n.  poet
• The ancient bard Homer sang of the fall of troy.
2. Blunder n, v. error
• The criminal's fatal blunder led to his capture.
3. Canto n. division of long poem
• Dante's poetic masterpiece "The Divine Comedy" is divided into cantos.
4. Champion v, n. support militantly
• Martin Luther King Jr,  won the Nobel Peace Prize because he championed the oppressed in their struggle for equality.
5. collaborate v. work together
•  Two writers collaborated  in preparing this book.
6. conglomeration n. mass of material sticking together
• In such a conglomeration  of miscellaneous statistics, it was impossible to find the single areas of analysis.
7. counterpart n.  a thing that completes another; things very much alike
• Day and night are counterparts.
8. deciduous adj. falling off, as of leaves.
• The oak is a deciduous tree.
9. derogatory adj. expressing a low opinion
• Because the word Eskimo has come under strong attack in recent years for its supposedly derogatory connotations, many Americans today either avoid the term or feel uneasy using it.
10. dishearten v. discourage
• His failure to pass the bar exam disheartened him.

For increasing GRE word power....5 Words for today...

For all who are preparing for GRE, here are 5 words for today,

1. aboriginal:  adj, n. being the first of its kind in a region; primitive; native (aborigine, n)
• Her studies of the primitive art forms of the aboriginal  Indians were widely reported in the scientific journals.
2.  adulation n. flattery; admiration. (adulate, v)
• The rock star thrived on the adulation of his groupies and yes -men. 
3. amenities n. convenient features; courtesies.
• In addition to the customary amenities for the business traveler- fax machines, modems, a health club- the hotel offers the services of a butler(head of the servant) versed in the social amenities.
4. apothegm n. pithy, compact saying. (pithy-precisely meaningful, forceful and brief)
• Proverbs are apothegms that have become familiar sayings.
5. astral adj. relating to the stars.
• She was amazed at the number of astral bodies the new telescope revealed.

अमेरिकाबाट धेरै फुर्ति नलगाऔ है!!

अमेरिकाबाट गाऊँमा हर्केलाइ फोनमा फुर्ति लाऊँदै शेरे,
शेरे: ओबामालाइ चिन्छस?..
हर्के: चिन्दिन
शेरे: अमेरिका आए पो चिन्थिस, एन्जेलिना जोलीलाइ नि?.
हर्के :अहँ चिन्दिन
…शेरे: अंग्रेजी फिल्म हेरे पो चिन्थिस, रिहानालाइ नि?..
हर्के: चिन्दिन
शेरे: अंग्रेजी गीत सुने पो चिन्थिस, लन्ठु शेरेका कुरा सुनेर हर्के झन्कींदै भन्यो ‘बिर्खेलाई चिन्छस?..
शेरे: अहँ चिन्दिन यार
हर्के: तेरै स्वास्नीको boy friend हो, कहिल्यै घर बसे पो चिन्थिस..

ख्याल ठट्टा.....

Old but funny one....
टिचरले रामलाई सोधेछन्

टिचर : राम टिमि भन त एउटा कुखुराले एक दिनमा २ ओटा अण्डा दिन्छ भने एक हप्तामा कतिओटा अण्डा दिन्छ?

राम : १२ ओटा सर ।

टिचर : कसरि १२ ओटा मात्रै दिन्छ ? हप्तामा ७ दिन हुन्छ।

राम : सर सनिबार त छुट्टि हुन्छनि त।

Rajesh Hamal better than Rajnikant!!!

Once rajesh hamal & Rajanikant met on a plane & had a bet dat if rajesh dai fails to ans his questions he must give 5$ & if Rajanikant fails he has 2 give 500$.. rajanikant agreed!

Rajanikant: wats d diff b/w earth n moon?
rajesh dai silently gives 5$

rajesh dai : which is d animal with 3legs goes 2 d mountain & returns with 4legs?
Rajanikant thought for 2hrs & gave 500$ n asks wats d ans?
rajesh dai again silently gave 5$ !!