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Robert E. Kahn invented the internet in 1983. It is known as the "network of networks". It opened up doors for one of the biggest revolutions in society.
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Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. He has mixed feelings about his invention today.
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Google was created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they attended Stanford University. It is the number 1 search engine used today.
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MySpace was founded by Tom Anderson, Chris DeWolfe, and Jon Hart. It had 50.6 million viewers in 2015.
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It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004. Every second there are 20,000 people on Facebook. It was the first social media site that blew up.
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YouTube is a video-sharing website created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. YouTube has over a billion users, almost one-third of all people on the Internet.
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Twitter is a microblogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams were the founders of Twitter. A total of 1.3 billion accounts have been created.
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Pintrest was created by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp. Pintrest has 250 million users and is the fastest growing website by overall member growth.
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Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook. It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. More than 40 billion photos have been shared in the Instagram history.
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Snapchat is a multimedia messaging app used globally and was created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown. Snapchat has over 100 million users everyday.
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Tinder was launched by Sean Rad, Justin Mateen, Jonathan Badeen, Joe Munoz, Whitney Wolf, and Chris Gylczynski in September 2012. Tinder gets 1.6 billion swipes per day.
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Vine was founded by Dom Hofmann, Rus Yusupov, and Colin Kroll. Vine had 200 million active viewers and 1.5 billion loops.
