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gaming console
A video game console is a device that outputs a video signal or visual image to display a video game. The term "video game console" is used to distinguish a console machine primarily designed for consumers to use for playing video games in contrast to arcade machines or home computers. It includes home video game consoles, handheld game consoles, microconsoles and dedicated consoles. Although Ralph Baer had built working game consoles by 1966, it was nearly a decade before Pong made them common -
cell phones
A mobile phone is a telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency carrier while the user is moving within a telephone service area. The radio frequency link establishes a connection to the switching systems of a mobile phone operator, which provides access to the public switched telephone network (PSTN). Most modern mobile telephone services use a cellular network architecture, and therefore mobile telephones are often also called cellular telephones or cell phones. In additio -
exchanging numbers
A telephone exchange name or central office name was a distinguishing and memorable name assigned to a telephone exchange. It identified the central office to which a telephone was connected. Each exchange served a maximum of 10,000 subscriber lines identified by the last four digits of the telephone number. Areas or cities with more subscribers were served by multiple exchanges, possibly hosted in the same central office building. The leading letters of a central office name were used as the le -
skype
Skype is an application that provides video chat and voice call services. Users may exchange such digital documents as images, text, video and any others, and may transmit both text and video messages. Skype allows the creation of video conference calls. Skype is available for Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, or Linux, as well as Android, Blackberry, and both Apple and Windows smartphones and tablets.[17] Skype is based on a freemium model. Much of the service is free, but Skype Credit o -
facebook
Facebook is a corporation and online social networking service headquartered in Menlo Park, California, in the United States. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg with his Harvard College roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.[8][9][10] The founders had initially limited the website's membership to Harvard students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. -
messenger
Fort Dodge Messenger, a newspaper printed in Fort Dodge, Iowa, United States
Messenger (magazine), a Mormon fundamentalist publication
Messenger Newspapers, a group of newspapers in Adelaide, South Australia
The Messenger (astronomical magazine) is a quarterly astronomical journal published by the European Southern Observatory
The Messenger (magazine), a monthly magazine associated with the Harlem Renaissance
The Missionary Messenger, a journal of the British Methodist Episcopal Church in Toront -
twitter
Twitter (/ˈtwɪtər/) is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets". Registered users can read and post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them. Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS or mobile device app.[10] Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco and has more than 25 offices around the world.[11] Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass -
tumblr
Tumblr (stylized as tumblr.) is a microblogging platform and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007, and owned by Yahoo! since 2013.[1] The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs, as well as make their blogs private.[4][5] Much of the website's features are accessed from the "dashboard" interface, where the option to post content and posts of followed blogs appear. As of March 1, 2016, Tumblr hosts ove -
Oovoo
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ooVoo allows registered users to communicate through free instant messaging, voice, and video chat. ooVoo conferencing software enables high quality video and audio calls with up to twelve locations simultaneously, high resolution video and desktop sharing, and PC- or Mac-to-phone calls to landlines and mobile phones for a fee. -
instagram
Instagram is an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing, and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, and share them either publicly or privately on the app, as well as through a variety of other social networking platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Flickr.[5] Originally, a distinctive feature was that it confined photos to a square shape, similar to Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid images, in contrast to the 4:3 aspect ratio typically used by m -
kik
Kik Messenger, also called Kik, is an instant messenger application (app) for mobile devices from Kik Interactive, available free of charge on iOS, Android, and Windows Phone operating systems.[1] Kik Messenger is modeled after BlackBerry Messenger.[2] It uses a smartphone's data plan or Wi-Fi to transmit and receive messages, photos, videos, sketches, mobile webpages, and other content after users register a username.[3] Kik is known for its features preserving users' anonymity, such as allowin -
Snapchat
Snapchat is a video messaging application created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown Poster [3] when they were students at Stanford University.[4][5][6] According to Snapchat's published statistics, as of May 2015, the app's users were sending 2 billion photos and videos per day, while Snapchat Stories content was being viewed 500 million times per day. In November 2015 the number reached 6 billion sent videos per day.[7] The company has a valuation of $10–$20 billion, depending on -
Vine
Vine is a short-form video sharing service where users can share six-second-long looping video clips. The service was founded in June 2012, and American microblogging website Twitter acquired it in October 2012, just before its official launch. Users' videos are published through Vine's social network and can be shared on other services such as Facebook and Twitter. Vine's app can also be used to browse through videos posted by other users, along with groups of videos by theme, and trending, or
