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Life Online — bonus #25 answers

Theme: Life Online

Starting event: Larry Page and Sergey Brin found Google (1998)

The full timeline

1. 1974
   Plumbing

   Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn describe a protocol for linking networks together

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2. 1983
   Plumbing

   The Domain Name System is created, so machines can be found by name

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3. 1988
   Chat

   Jarkko Oikarinen writes Internet Relay Chat in Finland

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4. 1990
   Browsers

   Tim Berners-Lee writes the first web browser on a NeXT machine

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5. 1991
   Plumbing

   The technology behind the web is released beyond CERN to other institutions

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6. 1993
   Browsers

   Mosaic is developed at a supercomputing centre in Illinois

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7. 1994
   Shopping

   Jeff Bezos founds Amazon as an online bookshop in Washington state

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8. 1995
   Shopping

   Pierre Omidyar founds the auction site eBay

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9. 1996
   Mail

   Hotmail launches, freeing email from the company that sold you the connection

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10. 1997
    Plumbing

    The first version of the Wi-Fi standard is released

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11. 1998
    SearchStarting event

    Larry Page and Sergey Brin found Google

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12. 1999
    Music

    Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker launch Napster and file sharing takes off

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13. 2000
    Money

    The stock market bubble built on internet companies bursts

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14. 2003
    Social

    Myspace launches and becomes the first social network with a global audience

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15. 2004
    Social

    Mark Zuckerberg and his roommates start Facebook

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16. 2005
    Video

    Three former PayPal employees found YouTube

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17. 2006
    Social

    Jack Dorsey and others create the service that becomes Twitter

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18. 2008
    Music

    Spotify launches in Europe as a legal answer to music piracy

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19. 2009
    Money

    Bitcoin begins circulating with the release of its open-source software

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20. 2010
    Social

    Instagram is launched for the iPhone

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21. 2013
    Apps

    Zoom releases the first version of its video calling software

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