Farren's Opinion Corner

Everyone knows that the internet is a very interesting place. There’s the good and happy side of it and the dark and disturbing part of it. But one important fact is that the Internet is the most diverse community in the world. Its made up of people of different nationalities, race, religions, genders, age groups etc. So its always very fun when an internet site creates a project to rally the internet together. One of the most popular projects is r/place. r/place was a community experiment that started on April’s Fools Day 2017. Reddit users were given five days to colour a (1000x1000) canvas. Here’s the catch, users can only paint one pixel at a time before having to wait 5-20 minutes to paint another pixel.  Therefore, alliances needed to be formed to create the image or picture people wanted. Immediately when the canvas opened to users, alliances began forming as users tried to paint and colour the canvas with whatever they wanted. After 5 days, r/place went from 1 million white...

  Gmail - 18 Years Later Everyday, millions of people use Gmail to receive, send and check their emails. It has become an essential and life-changing way to communicate between workers and individuals. The sheer impact that Gmail has had is limitless and unimaginable a mere 50 years ago. So here’s how it started… Google launched Gmail in 1 April 2004. And it was originally a daring project. With a full 1GB of ram that was included into Gmail at the start, it was a revolutionary software. But when launched in 2004, Google made the slightly stupid decision to launch Gmail on the first of April. Therefore, everywhere around the world, news articles and people wrote how Gmail was such a brilliant April Fools Prank, a prank that took the world by storm. It was a product launch gone wrong.  Developments to Gmail had been in progress for over a year at that point. Finally, after thorough testing, Gmail was launched and it was a daring idea. It offered 1GB of storage, revolutionary at...