How the Internet Took Over the World 2012 Outlook, replaced Hotmail. 2011 Google Plus 2010 Instagram, and Pinterest, 2009 Kickstarter, an online threshold pledge system for funding creative projects. Bing, a web search engine from Microsoft. WhatsApp, a mobile app used to communicate for free. 2008 Android Market, then an app store; now merged with Google Music and known as Google Play 2007 Google Street View, in Google Maps and Google Earth Kindle, the e-book reader by Amazon 2006 WikiLeaks, Twitter social networking 2005 YouTube, a video sharing website. Google Earth, a virtual globe computer program. 2004 Podcast: Gmail is the Google free web-based e-mail service. Facebook is a social networking website. 2003 Skype, iTunes MySpace is a social networking website. 2002 LinkedIn, a business-oriented social networking TinyURL, a URL shortening service. 2001 Wikipedia, a collaboratively edited, multilingual, free Internet encyclopaedia. 2000 TripAdvisor, travel site that assists customers in gathering travel information, posting reviews and opinions of travel related content and engaging in interactive travel forums. 1999 RSS, Napster (now defunct) was an online music peer-to-peer file sharing service 1998 Google Inc. launched a search engine for web sites of the World Wide Web, subsequently extending search facilities to many types of media, including books, magazines, forums, email, news. Yahoo! Groups PayPal, 1997 Go Daddy, About, an online resource for original information and advice. 1996 Internet Archive is an archive of periodically cached versions of websites. Hotmail, a free web-based email service. Ticketmaster, a ticket sales and distribution company 1995 Ebay is an auction and shopping website. Craigslist, a centralized network of online communities, AltaVista, a web search engine owned by Yahoo!. 1994 Amazon The Yahoo! website started off as a web directory 1993 Blog: A blog (a contraction of the term weblog) is a type of website which resembles an online diary. Hutchison Paging email gateway allows emails to be sent to message pagers in the UK. This same system worked with Orange mobile phones when they were launched in 1994, emails would arrive as texts. 1992 HTML was developed by a British engineer, Tim Berners-Lee
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