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Archie
First search engine was Archie - started by students at the McGill University
Didn't index the contents of sites because of limited data
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1994 - Internet coined as "Information Superhighway"
"A propsed high speed communications system that was coined by the Clinton/Gore administraton to enhance education in America"
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Geocities
Created in 1994, users were able to select a "city" as a location for their webpages
Acquired by Yahoo in 1999 for $3.57 billion
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Yahoo
Launched its' web directory
Didn't build web search engine until 2002
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America Online
Nearly half of all the homes in the United States had internet action through AOL
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Ask Jeeves
Web search engine that aimed to rank links based on popularity
Later became ask.com
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MSN
Launched MSN search using results from Inktomi
Developed in house search technology in 2005
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Napster
Created by Shawn Fanning and Shawn Parker
Had 20 million users by March 2000
Shut down in 2001, declared bankruptcy and resurfaced as a legal music subscription service
Paved the way for music streaming and file sharing as we know it today
https://www.thedailybeast.com/15-years-after-napster-how-the-music-service-changed-the-industry
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Blogger
One of the earliest blog publishing services was created
Acquired by Google in 2003
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Limewire
Launched by Mark Gorton as a site that operated within the law
Closed in 2010 due to a permanent injunction by a New York Federal Court
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LinkedIn
A network specifically for professional connections
Growth was slow initially
More than 100 million users worldwide by 2011
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Myspace
Was mainly known for bands' pages and customizable profiles
Was the #1 ranked website in 2006 and worth $12 billion in 2007
Site was sold to an advertising firm for $35 million
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Facebook
Founded by Mark Zuckerberg
Initally limited to Harved students, then Boston area schools, the Ivy League and eventually most colleges and universities in the U.S, and Canada
In 2006, users only needed to be 13 years of age or older with a valid email address
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Google
Google Suggest was introduced as a Google Labs feature
2010 - Google launched Google Instant; a "search before you type" feature
2011 - Launched Google Panda which affected 12% of search queries - to crack down on spam and sites with high ad-to-content ratios
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YouTube
Created by PayPal emploiyees
First video uploaded was "Me at the zoo" by one of the founders, Jawed Karim on April 23, 2005
2006 - One of the fastest growing websites
2007 - Purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (Google's second largest acquistion)
2007 - Estimated that YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire internet in 2000
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Twitter
Originally meant to be an SMS based communication platform
Gained popularity quickly worldwide
2012 - 100 million useres produced 340 million tweets daily and the site handled 1.6 billion searh queries a day
Users added a "@" symbol in order to direct their tweets towards another person
https://www.lifewire.com/history-of-twitter-3288854
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Instagram
Initial launch exclusively for iOS
2012 - Android version availble - downloaded more than 1 million times in less than 24 hours
2012 - Feature limited web interface launched
2012 - Bought by Facebook for $300 million cash and 23 million sharees of stock
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Snapchat
Origianlly launched as "Picaboo" July 2011
Relaunched as Snapchat September 2011
Significant emphasis on users using virtual stickers and augmented reality objects
February 2018 - 189 million daily active users
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Vine
Founded in June of 2012 and officially luanced in January of 2013
By December 2013 there were over 200 million active users
2016 - Twitter announced that it would disable uploads, but users would still be able to view and download
2017 - Vine co-founder announced plans for V2
2018 - Progress of V2 halted due to legal and financial issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine_(service)
