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Email was first developed in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson,
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the year that brought the first unsolicited commercial email message (later known as spam),
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Scott Fahlman in 1982 who proposed using :-) after a joke
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1991 brought some major innovations to the world of the Internet. The first web page was created
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Google went live in 1998, revolutionizing the way in which people find information online.
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Wikipedia launched in 2001, one of the websites that paved the way for collective web content generation/social media
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MySpace opens up its doors. It later grew to be the most popular social network at one time
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Facebook launched in 2004, though at the time it was only open to college students and was called "The Facebook"
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YouTube launched in 2005, bringing free online video hosting and sharing to the masses
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Twitter launched in 2006. It was originally going to be called twittr (inspired by Flickr); the first Twitter message was "just setting up my twttr".
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The biggest innovation of 2007 was almost certainly the iPhone, which was almost wholly responsible for renewed interest in mobile web applications and design.