Have you ever imagined what some of the most popular social networks today would be like if they were, and even could be, invented fifteen or twenty years ago?

Well, here is a look at what the Facebook experience might have been like if it had been introduced to the World Wide Web in 1995. Okey, so Mark Zuckerberg might have been just eleven years-old at the time but just play along.

Created by Squirrel-Monkey.com, Facebook is pretty much the same only with crappy graphics, scary text-to-speech and detailed instructions on how it functions. Also, according to Squirrel Money it would have likely been called The Facebook instead.

Would you have joined Facebook in 1995?

Watch what the ’90s Facebook might have looked like in the video after the jump…

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If there’s one thing Google clearly does better than its competing tech giants, it’s April Fools.

Here are just a few of the many Google pranks that they announced on the internet, in an attempt to simplify things for internet users around the world from crazy new Street View ideas to changing the way we navigate around the web.

Google’s Really Advanced Search: Google introduced, Really Advanced Search, which went way beyond anything Advanced Search could do. This included searching options like “rhyming slang for”, “subtext or innuendo for” and the “this exact word or phrase”. It even goes so far as to let you filter by a “embarrassing grammatical faux pas” and font. While ridiculous, it would be very useful for those of us who really have no idea what we’re looking for.

Chrome Multitask Mode: Google Chrome’s Multitask mode lets you browse the internet with, wait for it, multiple cursors at the same time. Now you can get more done faster in what Google is calling the “ambinavigation” revolution.

Google Racing: Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin announced himself that in partnership with Nascar, Google was going to explore “building a self-driving car capable of navigating a track at speeds upwards of 200mph while surrounded by other cars.”. The answer is Google Racing. Brin does a really good job of convincing viewers that the idea is legitimate.

Watch Brin’s announcement of the partnership in the video below:

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Watch as the very intelligent Peter the elephant plays with the Samsung Galaxy Note touch screen smartphone.

Peter has fun with the Galaxy Note’s picture viewer and camera and even shows off his artistic side by playing the guitar and drawing a picture with the S-Pen stylus in his trunk.

The video, uploaded by technivator, comments below the clip that “This is all real, no film trickery, post-production or hidden cuts – he’s just a very clever elephant.” They have also uploaded additional footage of Peter playing the piano and the drums on the device for further proof of its authenticity.

The tag line at the end of the clip “bigger is better” is a light-hearted reaction to the Galaxy Note’s size as a large smartphone/tablet hybrid and so it’s only fitting that something larger than a human, has some fun with it.

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The Oatmeal once again perfectly sums up our frustrations with computers. Have to say – there is element of truth in this (you can click the image to be taken to his site):

If you have not yet visited The Oatmeal yet, do yourself a favour and head over to his site right now. Matthew Inman really has some awesome comics – and he recently released a book as well.

Source: The Oatmeal

Gotta hand it to Cell C – they know how to do marketing right. Vodacom has recently switched to a red colouring, as you might have noticed. Now how does Cell C and Trevor Noah take a bit of that attention? Watch the video below:

“It takes more than a lick of paint to be number SA’s number one network, dont you think?”

One problem though – there is a lot of chatter going on on Twitter about the much reduced speed of Cell C’s network these days. Just take a look at @louisvdm and @sarietha ‘s tweets to see what I am talking about. There has clearly been some congestion issues, especially in Stellenbosch – clearly the students have all switched to Cell C for internet.

Clearly the Cell C sticks have been selling well, but maybe too well for Cell C to handle? The pricing is still the best on the market, with not one single mobile network trying to compete. A few months ago I posted my speeds using Cell C over a period of time, but my performance has always been very good.

So in a bid to get some real life speeds from more Cell C “whoosh” users, please contribute to BandwidthBlog’s Speedwave for Cell C users. Its pretty easy, connect to the internet with your Cell C stick, and then do a Speedtest using the following link:

http://www.speedtest.net/wave/6be03c3c76bb542c

At present the results look OK, but we do want a representative sample. So lets see how everyone’s Cell C network is performing? Are you a happy customer or are you becoming a bit annoyed as well? Let us know in the comments.

Seriously – the amount of attention this insane actor is getting is spiralling out of control. Everywhere I go online I have to read about what he said and did. If you are like me, and you want to rid your own webpages of the scourge of Sheen, you will be happy to know there is a plug-in available for Firefox and Google Chrome which removes all mentions of Charlie Sheen, and all the current internet memes that surround him, including his hashtags.

Its pretty easy – just go and download the “Tinted Sheen” plugin here.

You can thank me later.

The peeps over at Unpluggd found this great infographic highlighting the different types of iPhone users – pretty spot on!

Any other ones you can think of??? (also awaiting onslaught of Android-trolls in 3…2…..1…).

Source: Unpluggd (Sorry, I had to cut it up to display well)