Events of the history of the rise of the internet, web, and social media
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This day in history should be known by the whole world. On this day, the world began a great change in how we live out daily lives.
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The Oxford English Dictionary defines the term as "a route or network for the high-speed transfer of information"
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This is an extremely important date in history. The worlds largest Christian church is started to participate in the web.
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Online music was becoming more and more popular with the growth of the web. This would eventually put most record companies out of business.
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Google changed the web forever. Because of Google, searching the web became simple and easy.
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The modern paradigm of creating profiles and sharing different types of information.
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Friendster hits a million users just 5 years after sixdegree is shutdown.
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Mark Zuckerberg developed Facebook as a sophomore at Harvard.
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YouTube has changed the way that we view videos. Because of YouTube the world can share a video with a click of a button.
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The internet reached over 92 million websites
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Twitter is launched. Twitter could compete with facebook because it is not a copy cat.
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Apple introduced a mobile web that was comparable to a computer web site.
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The hashtag drew in billions of dollars of revenue is just a few years.
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Instagram is one of the worlds largest social media sites that was launched 6 years after FaceBook.
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The internet has increased to BILLIONS of users worldwide.
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Facebook reached 1 billion active users. Facebook is now one of the worlds largest companies.
