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Wikipedia
Wikipedia launched in January and by August it had 8,000 articles. It was the web's first online encyclopedia whioch could be edited from anyone around the world. -
online chat rooms became global
this is when online chatrooms took ther world by storm and changed opened the world up to blogging etc -
AOL
US regulators approve the merger of AOL and Time Warner. Shareholders of relative upstart AOL own 55% of the new company. AOL started in 1985 and grew its modest internet connection business into one of the world's biggest media companies. -
half way there
Nearly half of us are connected: UK telecomms regulator Oftel reports that 47% of UK homes have internet access and 58% have a PC. Of those online, 15% use broadband and 92% are satisfied with their service. -
MySpace
Myspace launches in 2003 creating a new age in internet history, social networking -
First Official Download Chart
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Flickr
Photo sharing website Flickr is born, coinciding with the rise in digital photography. (Kodak discontinues reloadable film cameras in Western Europe and North America in this year.) -
the facebook was invented
the facebook was invented and was later renamed, facebook -
Youtube
The internet starts to threaten television and telephone companies. Youtube launches to enable people to easily publish videos online. Within a year, Google acquires Youtube for $1.65 billion despite owning its own video site. At the time, Youtube users were uploading 65,000 new films and watching 100 million clips each day. Meanwhile, phone companies are threatened by free internet-based phone calls. Skype enables two million calls at any moment, and has a user base of 53 million. eBay acquires -
Downloads count towards main chart
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Knarles Bekely gets first number 1 from downloads alone
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Twitter
Twitter is created. In stark contrast to the proliferation of lengthy blog posts online, Twitter messages are limited to 140 characters. -
Mobile Internet Subscribers
The mobile web reaches critical mass for advertising, according to Nielsen Mobile (PDF). In the US, there are 95 million mobile internet subscribers and 40 million active users. US mobile penetration is 15.6%, compared to 12.9% in the UK. Mobile internet generated $1.7 billion in revenue in the first quarter of 2008. -
US Election
In 2008 the US governement used youtube to post campaign videos in order to win votes for the election -
Google's 10th Birthday
Google's tenth birthday. The company that began with a search engine now also dominates online advertising and has a leading presence in online mapping, webmail and online document collaboration. Google's search engine indexes 1 trillion unique URLs and there are several billion new webpages published every day. Google encroaches on Microsoft's territory with the launch of the Google Chrome browser. -
BBC iPlayer HD
The BBC announces its iPlayer will go high definition. It was first launched Christmas 2007 and is used to stream programmes over the internet for up to a week after their television broadcast. Two thirds of Britons have broadband access at home , and there were 1.5 million new broadband subscribers in 2008. -
1 million followers on Twitter
Actor Ashton Kutcher becomes the first person on Twitter to have a million followers subscribing to his 'tweets'. -
Africa Connected
In 2009 East Africa got its first connection with broadband. -
facebook has 750 million users
2011 marked facebooks 750 millionth member
