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Apple was founded
The start of this company was, "a tech fairytale of one garage, three friends and very humble beginnings". Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, were the two founders that seemed to do the most work. That being said, seeing what we have been given today, the iPhone, iPad, and iMac would never have been, if it wasn't for Ronald Wayne. Jobs and Wozniak met in 1971 through a mutual friend.https://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/apple/history-of-apple-steve-jobs-mac-3606104/ -
Yahoo! was founded
While this company was founded in 1995, Jerry Yang and David Filo, created a website prior, "called "Jerry and David's guide to the world wide web" in January 1994. In 1995, these two men changed their sites name, to Yahoo compiling many different categories to one site. In the early 2000s, Google took over the site, leaving it still live, but was slowly falling to Google as it quickly rose in its amount of users. https://www.ft.com/content/e812c32c-506e-11e6-8172-e39ecd3b86fc -
Google.com is founded
In 1995, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, "began working on a computer program called BackRub - a search engine that levered backlink analysis to track and record data on the internet." Multiple times in the 1990s the company was almost sold multiple times, on April Fool's Day, 2004, Gmail was launched, the email site of Google. Between 2005 and 2012, ten different new forms of enhancement were added to the company. https://www.thestreet.com/technology/history-of-google-14820930 -
Linked in, the launch, and the difference
While this is another form of social media, it is used for business purposes. This app is used to connect with others that have the same business interests, along with an easier way for employers to find who they're specifically looking for, for a job. Not only can employers find you, but you can also look for jobs that are going to further your career. The difference between this and most job apps, is that this is a more narrow search. https://www.britannica.com/topic/LinkedIn -
MySpace; What it is
"From 2005 to 2008, MySpace was the most visited social networking site in the world", this media site, allows you to share photos, listen to music, and talk to friends. Many famous singers to this day, such as, "Sean Kingston, Lily Allen, Arctic Monkeys, and many other then-unknown artists", launched their careers on this social media platform of the time. https://www.forbes.com/sites/lorikozlowski/2012/05/15/how-myspace-spawned-a-startup-ecosystem/#23ebf6bf40ba -
Facebook, an original idea? Or a stolen one?
A 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook on February 4, 2004, as a sophomore in college. About a week after this happened, some fellow students at Harvard accused Mark of stealing the idea from them. There was eventtually a settlement after there was not enough evidence to further the case. Since then, Facebook has had plenty of ups and downs. https://www.businessinsider.com/how-facebook-was-founded-2010-3#we-can-talk-about-that-after-i-get-all-the-basic-functionality-up-tomorrow-night-1 -
YouTube key points
YouTube is an online site where you can watch videos over and over again, it's a place where if you're funny enough or interest enough people, you can become internet famous almost over night. Just one way that YouTube has changed since its launch is the way that the home page looks, the amount of technology that went into it. https://www.businessinsider.com/key-turning-points-history-of-youtube-2013-2#chad-hurley-registers-the-trademark-logo-and-domain-of-youtube-on-valentines-day-2005-1 -
Twitter, Important updates
It wasn't until 2009, that accounts could be considered "verified", meaning that a person was notable enough or enough of a public interest to be considered one of the top people who was active on the app. In 2014 GIFs were added to Twitter finally which allows people to share their expressions even more. https://blog.interactiveschools.com/blog/the-evolution-of-twitter -
Pinterest
This is a site that allows you to share ideas and DIYs throughout a community that thinks just like you! A major thing that people use this for is recipes that are shared worldwide. https://www.infront.com/blog/what-is-pinterest-and-how-does-it-work/ -
Instagram was founded
Instagram in the last ten years, has changed from basic square photos to any shape of photos, multiple photos at once. After time, you could then add pictures or videos to a story, much like snapchat that lasted 24 hours, and lastly highlights were added which were basically Instagram stories but permanent. https://www.fastcompany.com/3068655/how-instagram-changed-before-it-had-to -
Snapchat founding, all the way to rebranding
As majority of people know, Snapchat is an app that allows you to send pictures and videos, as well as chat to one or many different people at once. It wasn't until 2012 that video was introduced to the app. Following that, Stories and Chat were not introduced until 2013-14. A few more years go by and Snapchat decided to rebrand themselves, changing their name to Snap Inc. https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/history-of-snapchat -
Musical.ly, rebranded as TikTok
In November 2017, Musical.ly, was acquired and rebranded by ByteDance. All accounts content transferred over smoothly, meaning there were no upset creators. On January 1, 2018, TikTok was the #1 ranked app as far as free downloads on a mobile device go. Like most social media sites, this one also began allowing ads spending as much as $20,000 per video, that was of course for Musical.ly, but TikTok likely has the same rates. https://money.com/how-tiktok-makes-money-tiktok-owner/
