technology in the 2000's

  • firefox

    free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation
  • facebook

    Harvard sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg launches The Facebook, a social media website he had built in order to connect Harvard students with one another. By the next day, over a thousand people had registered, and that was only the beginning.
  • youtube

    YouTube was created by three PayPal employees as a video-sharing website where users could upload, share and view content
  • twitter

    San Francisco-based podcasting company Odeo officially releases Twttr later changed to Twitter
  • instagram

    American photo and video sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, created by Kevin Systrom