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YouTube Launches
YouTube was created by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. On the site users from around the world can upload videos to the platform for everyone to see. The first video posted to the site was from one of the creators himself, titled "A Day at the Zoo." In this video he say some facts about elephants. To this day this site is the most popular streaming service with millions of hours of content posted daily. -
Cryptocurrencies Shake up the Market
Satoshi Nakamoto first created the coin chain back in 2008 but after 2010 he was never heard from again. However Nakamoto's work would go on to create new digital currency that would in theory take over the physical money we use today. To this day, cryptocurrencies are used as stock investments and with that the value would shift dramatically. -
Uber Rides into the Competition
Founded by Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp in 2009, the ride sharing app was created. It wasn't before long that the app would take off. Years later it became the viable way to travel around, especially in cities, like Los Angels and New York. -
Amazon Storms Speech Technology
In 2013, Amazon unveiled their new invention, the Amazon Echo. A voice recognition device that would remind you about appointments or timers you set. It's design and function was inspired by Ivora from 2001: A space odyssey. Now Alexa is in millions of home across America today. -
Tesla's Self Driving cars Roll Out to the Public
Tesla was founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning who financed the company until Elon Musk took leadership of the company. Soon the company would corner the market for electric cars. around 2014 Tesla unveiled a self driving feature in their cars. For the most part the self driving system was installed for people to get from A to B while maybe sleeping or doing other things that they couldn't do while driving.