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CompuServe was the first major commercial Internet service
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First email
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The American online service was provided
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The Web had one million sites
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Google opens as a major Internet search engine and index.
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Apple started selling iPods.
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MySpace. another social networking website, was launched as a clone of Friendster.
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Facebook, another social networking website, was started for students at Harvard College. It was referred to at the time as a college version of Friendster.
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Facebook, another social networking website, was started for students at Harvard College. It was referred to at the time as a college version of Friendster.
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Facebook surpassed MySpace in the total number of monthly unique visitors. Meanwhile, Facebook tried unsuccessfully to buy Twitter.
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Microsoft's Bing joined Yahoo and Google as major search engines on the Internet.
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Apple released the iPad tablet computer with advanced multimedia and Internet capabilities.
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Apple closed the Ping social network in 2012 and improved iTunes.
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Twitter had 500 million registered users, with more than 200 million active.
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YouTube topped one billion monthly users with 4 billion views per day, and launched paid channels to provide content creators with a means of earning revenue.