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In 2006, two brothers launched a website using dial-up modems and a battered book on writing HTML4, named it after a character who woke up as a giant insect, and hoped someone might find it useful. Twenty years and 766,615,348…
We interview Richard Brodie, one of the creators of Microsoft Word. Find out why he now loves to use Apple products ...
Read the story of how Jonah Peretti founded new website BuzzFeed in 2006.
Check out our file conversion API - convert 100s of formats with just a few lines of code. In a special series Zamzar take a look at some of the people who have helped shape technology and made it…
When starting up a business, one of the key decisions to make is what your company will be called. Let us tell you a story from 2005, before Zamzar was born ... What’s in a name?Your company name can say…
A potted history of Twitter the company - how it came to be, when it was launched and who the key players were that made it happen.
A potted history of how Microsoft Word came to be. From the early days of DOS to Clippy the dreaded Paperclip, we cover it all.
We're celebrating our birthday here at Zamzar HQ - ten years ago today we launched the Zamzar website with a simple mission: Things were very different ten years ago. In Internet years that's like 8 centuries ... A potted history…
This is part three of a series of stories by Robert Gaskins who helped invent PowerPoint at Forethought Inc. in 1984 (see part one and part two). It was the first significant acquisition made by Microsoft. We spoke to Robert about the process of building a startup in the…
Read More The dream boss? What it was like to work for Bill Gates
This is part two of a series of stories by Robert Gaskins who helped invent PowerPoint at Forethought Inc. in 1984 (read part one here). It was the first significant acquisition made by Microsoft. We spoke to Robert about building a startup in the 1980s and…
Read More Life before the web – Running a Startup in the 1980’s
