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First cell phone call
On April 3, 1973, Motorola engineer Martin Cooper made the first public cell phone call to his rival.
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Internet Relay Chats
Early chat rooms used by people once in-home computers began becoming more popular.
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Ebay
Pierre Omidyar created what we now know as ebay. Trusting people within a single market to trade.
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Yahoo
Jerry Yang and David Filo, Stanford classmates, launch Yahoo. They don't know how they are going to make any money, but people in over 90 countries were using it in no time!
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Craigslist
An online community with mostly free classifieds launched by Craig Newmark in San Francisco, that eventually turned into sort of an "online flea market"
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Streaming services
On 9/5/95, Wikipedia has noted that ESPN SportsZone streamed a live radio broadcast of a baseball game between the mariners and the Yankee to thousands of subscribers. In January 2016, Facebook launches its livestreaming to everyone!
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Six Degrees
first social media site- users were able to upload a profile picture and to make friends with other users.
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AIM
AOL Instant Messenger - helped users communicate rapidly with other users (for the time). Gave people the opportunity to communicate in real time in a way that email did not allow for at that time.
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WIFI
In 1999, the term "Wi-Fi" was given to "802.11b" - which was the result of engineers looking for a faster way to send data via unlicensed airwaves, "using Ethernet's data packets, the internet's routing protocols and spread spectrums' use of many channels within a frequency band."
This article was published 5.1.2003, and only 4 years before that 802.11a was finalized. this was a faster version of the original 802.11b, and 802.11g was version number six, approved in 2003.
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Myspace
Myspace, beginning as a file storage center changed to a social networking site. It was the most popular social media site from 2004-2010.
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YouTube
Creating an entirely new way for users to share with each other, YouTube quickly became popular.
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Facebook
Even though Facebook was already in existence offering services to students of higher education, when it went public to anyone at least 13 years of age in 2006,has become incredibly popular and now has more than 2.2 billion monthly active users as of January 2018
(smallbiztrends.com, Wikipedia.com)
