Orkut History
A guy lost his girlfriend in a train accident.... but the gal's name nowhere appeared in the dead list. This guy grew up n became IT technical architect in his late 20?s, achievement in itself!!.He hired developers from the whole globe and plan to make a software where he could search for his gf through the web..Things went as planned...n he found her, after losing millions of dollars and 3 long years!!
It was time to shut down the search operation, when the CEO of Google had a word with this guy n took over this application,
This Software made a whopping 1 billion dollars profit in its first year, which we today know as ORKUT .
The guy's name is ORKUT BUYUKKOTEN, (a Turkish software engineer).
Yes its named after him only.
Today he is paid a hefty sum by Google for the things!!Keep enjoying and exploring sweet new friends on ORKUT!