5 significant inventions in computer history

By LissaY
  • 2004 Facebook founded

    2004 Facebook founded
    On February 4, 2004, Mark Zuckerberg lunched thefacebook.com and renamed Facebook in 2005. It started with Harvard students entered their own information and photos into a template that he had devised. Within two weeks half of the student body had signed up and after that he made the site available for other campuses cross country. Facebook quickly because popular more and more.
  • 2005 YouTube

    2005 YouTube
    YouTube was founded by three former PayPal employees. Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. It was founded in February 2005. Google bought the site November 2006.
  • 2006 Twitter

    2006 Twitter
    In March 2006, Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams created twitter, which was originally a side project stemming from the podcasting tool Odeo. The app’s popularity stared to explode after being heavily promoted by the tech community during the annual south by southwest conference.
  • 2007 iPhone

    2007 iPhone
    The iPhone is a smartphone that was first released by Apple Inc. The founder of iPhone is Steve Paul Jobs. The first generation iPhone was announced on January 9 2007, since then, Apple had annually released new iPhone models and iOS updates.
  • 2008 Airbnb

    2008 Airbnb
    Airbnb was founded January 1, 2008 by Brian Chesky, Nathan Blecharczyk and Joe Gebbia. In 2007 Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia were broke and looking to raise money to make their rent in San Francisco. They decided to rent our air mattress in their apartment to attendees of a conference because all the hotels were booked. They called their service “Air Bed and Breakfast”.