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AOL Instant Messenger (AIM)
AOL launched AIM, attracting a new generation of tech-savvy Internet users
By 2005, AIM dominated the instant messaging market with 53 million users
[https://mashable.com/2012/10/25/instant-messaging-history/#c6DPeHn4nPq0] -
The Invention of Google
The very popular search engine called Google was invented by computer scientists Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
The site was named after a googol - the name for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros - found in the book "Mathematics and the Imagination"
Help to search the Internet and finds web pages for the user based on the keywords submitted
[https://www.thoughtco.com/who-invented-google-1991852] -
LinkedIn
Reid recruits a team of old colleagues from SocialNet and PayPal to work on a new idea. Six months later, LinkedIn launches.
Is a truly global company, opening its first international office in London and launching Spanish and French language versions of the site
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Skype
A telecommunications application software product that specializes in providing video chat and voice calls between computers, tablets, mobile devices, the Xbox One console, and smartwatches via the Internet and to regular telephones
Was founded by Niklas Zennström, from Sweden, and Janus Friis, from Denmark
On 10 May 2011, Microsoft Corporation acquired Skype Communications for US$8.5 billion
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MySpace
Was founded by several employees from the Internet marketing firm eUniverse
Used to be no.#1 social network
Despite several re-design attempts, the company could not revive its brand dominance. News Corp. sold the site for $35 million to the advertising firm, Specific Media
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Facebook
Social networking website and service where users can post comments, share photographs and links to news or other interesting content on the Web, play games, chat live, and even stream live video.
Created by Mark Zuckerberg along with Edward Saverin, both students at the college
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Reddit
An entertainment, social networking, and news website where registered community members can submit content, such as text posts or direct links, making it essentially an online bulletin board system
In the mid 2010, Reddit overtakes Digg in search popularity
Was founded by University of Virginia roommates Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian
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YouTube
An American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California
Allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to favorites, report, comment on videos, and subscribe to other users. It offers a wide variety of user-generated and corporate media videos
YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries
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Yahoo! 360
Yahoo! 360 was a blog-focused social networking website designed to give users a place where they could connect with people that mattered to them the most.
Was originally launched to compete against MSN Spaces (later renamed Windows Live Spaces, which was then shut down in 2011)
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The beginning of Twitter
An idea of the co-founder Jack Dorsey had.
Twitter could be the SMS-based communications platform. Groups of friends could keep tabs on what each other were doing based on their status updates. Like texting, but not.
Some of the key early players in Twitter's history are Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan Williams
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Tumblr
A 17-year-old German high school student named Chris Neukirchen invented this tumblelog system, specifically for super-short blogging
A microblogging and social networking website
Users can follow other users' blogs. Bloggers can also make their blogs private
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Instagram
Instagram founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger unleashed the photo-sharing platform that, though they didn’t know it at the time, would soon become a selfie-filled, multi-billion-dollar beast used by 500 million people
One of the hottest trend that people use.
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Ask.fm
Ask.fm cofounders Ilja and Mark Terebin
Global social networking site where users create profiles and can send each other questions. It was once a form of anonymous social media that encouraged questions to be submitted anonymously
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Snapchat
An image messaging and multimedia mobile application created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown,[6] former students at Stanford University, and developed by Snap Inc., originally Snapchat Inc
The company rebrands itself from "Snapchat Inc." to "Snap Inc." and unveils the Spectacles. It also prepares for an initial public offering (IPO) in 2017
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapchat]
