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Arpanet was created on October 29, 1969. 4 western universities came up with it.
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web. He is a British computer scientist.
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Yahoo was started at Stanford University. Founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo.
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The founder of Ebay was Pierre Omidyar. The headquarters is located in San Jose, California.
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Google began in 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin Ph.D. students at Stanford University.
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Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University student Eduardo Saverin.
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Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. It was launched in October 2010.
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Snapchat is an image messaging and multimedia mobile application created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown when they were students at Stanford University. Snapchat was created in September 2011.
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Founder Ben Silbermann at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in March 2012. Development of Pinterest began in December 2009, and the site launched as a closed beta in March 2010.
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Vine is owned by Twitter. Vine was launched in January. Three young founders Rus Yusupov, Dom Hofmann, and Colin Kroll.
