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VoIP Phone Calls
Skype made it possible for people all over the world to connect via voice calls over the internet, bypassing the need to pay their phone company for long distance charges. Skype revolutionized voice calls and paved the way for other companies to offer VoIP phone services, including Vonage. -
Google Search Engine
In 2004, Google launched a beta version of their personalized search system that stored a cookie in a user’s browser that would deliver personalized results based on what websites were visited from that particular browser. Search engines provide users with search results that lead to relevant information on high-quality websites. Google is known to crawl more web pages than any other competitor, leading them to gather a more relevant set of results. -
Apple Releases First iPhone
Prior to 2007, it was possible to view webpages from a mobile phone, but it wasn’t a good experience.
Apple changed everything in 2007 when it launched the first iPhone that essentially combined a cellphone and computer into one device. Browsing the internet on the first iPhone was a substantially elevated experience in terms of quality and ease of use. -
Netflix Release
Although Netflix came alive in 1997 as a movie rental service, it grew to become the foremost video streaming service of all time. In 2007, a decade after its birth, Netflix began allowing members to instantly watch television shows and movies on their personal computers. Personally Netflix is one of my favorite pass times. -
Cloud Computing Becomes Standard
Although the concept of “cloud computing” has been around since it was coined in 1997, it wasn’t popular until 2014. In 2014, 51% of all workloads were being processed in the cloud. Cloud hosting makes massive resources available through multiple servers that act as a safeguard in case one of the servers goes down. With traditional web hosting, if the single server goes down, all websites hosted on that server go down.