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Facebook? why would there be a book for your face?
On February 4, 2004, the very first iteration of Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg. it was first called TheFacebook, and was not the most popular starting off, not receiving any investments until June of that year. -
Youtube : a platform for all
Youtube was created February 14th of the year 2005 in California by former PayPal coworkers Jawed Karim, Chad Hurley, and Steven Chen. The first video ever published on the site was of an animal at the San Diego Zoo! -
a tale as old as time (well at least the time I was alive ) : the iPhone
On June 29th of the year 2007 Steve Jobs took the stage to announce a new product that would take the world by storm : the iPhone. It was the first of its kind, an easily mobile device that combined the internet with all the functions of both an iPad and a landline. -
android or apple?
In October 2008, a concept first created by Andy Rubin came to light in the form of the T-Mobile G1. It was released by the google corporation who bought the concept for an unknown amount and their Open Handset Alliance. differing from the iPhone, it had a keyboard that would swing out and a mobile piece for all the phone's navigation buttons. -
Siri : a brief history
contrary to popular belief, apple did not create Siri, instead they bought it. Siri was actually engineered by Stanford researchers Adam Cheyer, Dag Kittlaus and Tom Gruber. Siri was actually even a prototype before the iPhone was even released, the advent of the iPhone just gave the engineers direction on where they were going to go with it. A commercial version was released in February of 2010, and apple bought Siri in April of the same year for almost 300 million.