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93,047,785 hosts online
- This is the number of people connected to the internet by the year 2000
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Period: to
web since 2000
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Wikipedia
- Information became free and easily accessible to public
- Allows users to edit and add their own content onto the articles
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Napster Shutdown
- Napster allowed illegal downloads of music/films etc.
- Invented three years before it was shutdown
- Potentially kicked off the age of piracy
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MySpace
- MySpace invented, largely popular and dominant during its time.
- Mainly used for music bands etc.
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Skype
- Skype allowed users to contact each other via video call over the internet from anywhere in the world.
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Gmail launch
- Google launches its own e-mail service
- Becomes widely popular
- Eventually launch Google Docs to rival Microsoft completely.
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Facebook
- Largely popular social networking site
- At its peak it was the dominant social networking site
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Youtube
- Distribution of User Generated Content
- Bought out by Google
- Piracy influx
- Dominant video sharing site
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Twitter
- Twitter launched, and rivaled Facebook
- Similarities between the two, both used for different reasons now
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BBC iPlayer
- BBC iPlayer allowed public to view TV shows they missed, online.
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Google Streetview
- Google Maps introduced streetview, which allowed users to see the actual streets on their screen
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iPhone launched
- First iPhone launched, which lead increased further development into smartphones.
- Device featured cross media convergence
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Spotify
- Allowed users to stream music from the web
- Access to a large database
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US Election
- The first US election ,post-YouTube, allowed the candidates to communcate with their audience
- Social networking sites used heavily, including YouTube, Facebook etc.
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681,064,561 hosts online
- As of July 2009, there were 681,064,561 hosts online, compared to 93,047,785 in the year 2000.
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Africa gets broadband
- Africa recieves its first connection to the internet
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Netflix announces over 26 million subscribers worldwide
- Netflix was founded in 1997 and reached over 26 million subscribers 14 years later.
- 23.6 million of those subscribers are from the US.
