But in its infancy, Instagram allowed people to share photos (mostly of food and cats) without all of the more detailed interactions of those other platforms, which is probably why it has become one of the most popular social media apps of all time, leading to its $1 billion sale to Facebook in 2012.
Chesnot/Getty Imagesīy 2010, the social media world had migrated from Friendster to MySpace to Twitter, so Instagram-a new image-based platform co-founded by former Google employee Kevin Systrom-felt like a reduction in services when it launched on October 6, 2010.
In 2010, Instagram joined the ever-growing roster of must-have social media apps. Jack Dorsey Sends the First-Ever Tweet (2006) Though it seems almost quaint in comparison to the stuff that gets sent around now, it racked up more than 68 million views on its official channel alone, offering the world a glimpse into the future of overnight viral sensations. It’s hard to pinpoint the first viral video, but one possibility that gets thrown around is 2006's comedy sketch "Shoes" by Liam Kyle Sullivan, about a disappointed young woman and her search for footwear. 'Shoes' Sets the Standard for Shared Videos (2006) The platform has attracted viewers by the billions in the years since, not just to watch existing content but to create and share their own, eventually prompting an entire generation to turn to their computers instead of other technologies for entertainment, news, and more. Their goal was to allow people to capture and upload moments like that-we'd later call them "viral moments"-and spread them across the web for people to watch without needing a TV. In an interview with USA Today, company co-founder Jawed Karim revealed that this event is partly what spurred a group of ex-Paypal employees to create the video-streaming platform in 2005. If not for the Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake Super Bowl halftime show that culminated in an infamous wardrobe malfunction, we might not have YouTube today. Back then, The New York Times wrote that Google was valued at $27 billion-today, the conglomerate (now technically known as Alphabet, Inc.) has a market cap of more than $2 trillion. And much of this success can be traced back to the company's decision to go public on August 19, 2004. Though other search engines beat it to market, Google has outlasted pretty much all of them, (sorry, Ask Jeeves) and has since morphed into an all-encompassing tech company that includes mapping technology, email systems, a music service, a streaming video game platform, and almost anything else you can imagine. AOL Mailed the Internet to People’s Homes (1993) As for the coffee pot itself, it was sold at auction that same year for £3350, or about $4700. When the live stream was shut down in 2001, it was featured on the front page of The Washington Post. By 1993, as the World Wide Web was beginning to connect the globe, the live coffee pot feed gained its own website, and by 1998, more than 2 million people had visited to see if the researchers were being properly caffeinated. The rudimentary webcam-along with some programming wizardry-would take three live images of the pot every minute and send the 128x128 grayscale pics to a shared server that all the researchers could access from their computer network. In 1991, when a group of researchers working in the computer lab at the University of Cambridge wanted a hands-off way to keep track of whether or not the community coffeepot was full, they rigged up a camera to monitor it for them.
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In 1991, Berners-Lee published the first-ever webpage, which was basically just filled with instructions on how to actually use the World Wide Web.
To achieve it, Berners-Lee wrote three technologies-URL, HTML, and HTTP-that would help create a user-friendly interface for the internet that allowed it to enter everyday use within two or three years. Carolyn Schaefer/Liaisonįirst proposed by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 to find a better way for scientists to share data, the World Wide Web is a collection of web pages that are accessible through the network of computers called the internet ( World Wide Web and internet aren't interchangeable terms).