Internet/Tech Advances

eBay

Sep 3, 1995

Buy and sell items HEREeBay Inc. is an American multinational corporation and e-commerce company, providing consumer-to-consumer & business-to-consumer sales services via Internet. It is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Netflix

Mar 9, 1997

Watch movies HERENetflix, Inc. is a provider of on-demand Internet streaming media available to viewers. It started its subscription-based service in 1999. Netflix's headquarters are in Los Gatos, California.

Google

Sep 4, 1998

Search anything HEREGoogle is a United States-headquartered, multinational corporation sepcializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud-computing, and software.

Facebook

Feb 4, 2004

Log into Facebook HEREThe social network Facebook was launched in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommate Eduardo Saverin. The founders had initially limited the website's membership to Harvard students.

YouTube

Feb 9, 2005

Visit YouTube HEREYouTube is a video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was created by three former PayPal employees. In 2006, it was bought by Google for US $1.65 billion.

Twitter

Mar 21, 2006

Log into Twitter HERETwitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets". Registered users can post and read tweets, but unregistered users can only read them.

Nintendo Wii

Nov 19, 2006

Buy a Wii HEREThe Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo in 2006. Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3.

Gmail

Feb 7, 2007

Log into your Gmail account HEREGmail is a free, advertising-supported email service provided by Google. Gmail initially started as an invitation-only beta release in 2004, and it became available to the general public in 2007.

Hulu

Mar 9, 2007

Watch movies and shows HEREHulu is an American online company and ad-supported online video service that offers a selection of TV shows, clips, movies, and more on the free Hulu.com service and Hulu Plus subscription service.

iPhone

Jun 29, 2007

View iPhone models HEREiPhone is a line of smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. It runs Apple's iOS mobile operating system. The first generation iPhone was released in 2007. The most recent models are the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus, which were released in 2014. There are 8 generations of the iPhone models.