In 1994 when I came to USA I was really hungry to get news about India
"India abroad" was the only news paper available in those day, except for some other throw away news / advertising sheets at Indian groceries
Then I discovered "Internet" at a local library in North Olmsted Cleveland Ohio
those few green letters on a black background which used to crawl on to the CRT display were like gold to me
It had 8 or 16 KBPS speed I think
In the last 2 decades technology has progressed quickly and now I have to actually shut my self from the bombardment of information much of it is junk, but still quite bit of it is gold as far as Telugu news, literature and poetry is concerned
In the early days of Telugu use on the internet and in computers in general a number of telugu expatriates in USA along with some interested youngsters did much work just for the fun of it. I think there is a need to have a comprehensive history of theses efforts I really do not know what motivated theses good Samaritans.
some of the well known names are
Srinivas Kanneganti
srinivas
rakeshwar
Even today Telugu does lag behind other Indian languages in various computer software aspects.
many people without understanding the intricacies of computer linguistics and information technology think that it is on par with English.
really no other language has come near to English on computer related use and the amount of software and hardware related to English
and Telugu seems to be stuck few steps behind Tamil.
This is inspite of more Telugu speaking computer professionals working all over the world compared to any other Indian language speaking professionals.
"India abroad" was the only news paper available in those day, except for some other throw away news / advertising sheets at Indian groceries
Then I discovered "Internet" at a local library in North Olmsted Cleveland Ohio
those few green letters on a black background which used to crawl on to the CRT display were like gold to me
It had 8 or 16 KBPS speed I think
In the last 2 decades technology has progressed quickly and now I have to actually shut my self from the bombardment of information much of it is junk, but still quite bit of it is gold as far as Telugu news, literature and poetry is concerned
In the early days of Telugu use on the internet and in computers in general a number of telugu expatriates in USA along with some interested youngsters did much work just for the fun of it. I think there is a need to have a comprehensive history of theses efforts I really do not know what motivated theses good Samaritans.
some of the well known names are
Srinivas Kanneganti
srinivas
rakeshwar
Even today Telugu does lag behind other Indian languages in various computer software aspects.
many people without understanding the intricacies of computer linguistics and information technology think that it is on par with English.
really no other language has come near to English on computer related use and the amount of software and hardware related to English
and Telugu seems to be stuck few steps behind Tamil.
This is inspite of more Telugu speaking computer professionals working all over the world compared to any other Indian language speaking professionals.
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