199 1 year, Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web (WWW) characterized by "hyperlinks" after years of practice and improvement.
From 65438 to 0994, Justin Hall, a student of Swarthmore College, established his own personal website "Justin's Links from the Underground" and began to connect with external networks. Justin Hall updated this website 1 1 year because it was called "Founding Father".
1995 set up Classmates.com to help former kindergarten students, primary school students, junior high school students, senior high school students and college students get in touch again; Classmates.com still had 50 million members in 2008, and it was not until 20 10 that it fell out of the social networking site TOP 10. Here is a vivid romantic example: Ray Sears found his seventh-grade girlfriend in Classmates.com. He asked her if she remembered him through the information tool in the station, and she replied, "How can I forget my first love?" . So the two entered the marriage hall and gave birth to two sons.
1996, an early search engine, Ask.com, was launched, allowing people to ask questions in natural language instead of using keywords (for example, "What movie is on today" instead of "The movie is released on1October 23rd, 65438").
1997, the American online real-time communication tool AIM is launched; In this year, a pioneer blogger named Jorn Barger coined the word "weblog".
1998, launched the online diary community Open Diary, which allows people to publish public or secret diaries even if they don't know HTML knowledge. More importantly, this is the first time that people can comment and reply in other people's blogs.
1999, Blogger and LiveJournal appear; Later, Blogger was acquired by Google in 2003, but the product still exists-FOSS patent, which is widely welcomed by global technology companies, is a website built with Blogger.
In 2000, jimmy donal wales and Larry Sanger founded Wikipedia, which is the first open source, online and collaborative encyclopedia in the world, completely different from the compilation method of Encyclopedia Britannica. Wiki users contributed 20,000 online entries in the first year. At present, Wikipedia still insists on raising funds to raise operating funds. At the end of 20 1 1, they raised 20 million dollars to maintain their operation in 20 12.
200 1, Meetup.com website was established, focusing on offline friends. Everyone should not be familiar with this website, but you should be surprised to know that this website with a history of 12 years still has 340,000 groups holding offline activities every month. The website was founded by Scott Heifman. After the "9. 1 1" incident in 2006+0, he established the Meetup.com to help people connect with each other-not just online. Meetup.com is an interesting dating website. He encourages people to get out of isolated families and make friends and chat with like-minded people. Now it has 340,000 groups meeting in local communities every month, eating, drinking, chatting, socializing and even studying together.
In 2002, Friendster was launched, which was the first social network with 65,438+0 million users. Friendster pioneered making friends through personal homepage. Two years later, Facebook was officially launched in the dormitory of Harvard University. At present, under the offensive of Facebook, Friendster has basically declined around the world, but it is still very popular in Indonesia and the Philippines-interestingly, Facebook is also extremely popular in these two countries, and it seems that people in Southeast Asia have a strong desire to socialize.
In 2003, MySpace for teenagers and youth groups went online, which once again refreshed the growth rate of social networks: the number of registered people exceeded 1 10,000 in one month. After the development of MySpace, pornography and unnecessary abuse gradually increased, and the management personnel were not standardized, which made it difficult to expand users and was eventually sold. If the 580 million yuan sold to News Corporation in 2005 symbolizes that it is a rising star in the future, then the 35 million dollars sold to advertisers by 20 1 1 means that this meteor has fallen.
In 2003, WordPress was launched and created by hundreds of netizens around the world through online collaboration. At present, there are tens of millions of users in the world-as of 20 1 1, 65438+February, WordPress 3.0, which was released one year ago, has been downloaded 65 million times. There are countless stories related to WordPress. This infographic tells the story of helping a girl with autism get rid of the disease. Carly Flesman got rid of autism by typing on the computer. Then she started Voice of Carly's WordPress personal blog to help others get rid of autism.
In 2004, Facebook was founded. According to the first financial report after listing in July, Facebook currently has 955 million active users (MAU), and the number of active users on mobile platforms is 543 million per month.
Flickr was founded in 2004 in the same year, and it is still a very active photo community, but its owner has become Yahoo.
In 2005, YouTube was founded and was quickly won by Google. In 2006, the purchase price from Google was $654.38+65 million.
In 2006, Twitter was founded. Because its content is limited to 140 words, it has quickly become a convenient communication tool and a powerful self-media platform.
Founded in 2006, Spotify is now a typical social music sharing application with150,000 MAU and 4 million paying users.
In 2007, Tumblr, a light blog platform, was established, and there are currently 77 million blogs on the platform; According to the data of 20 1 1 July, the monthly independent visits of this website are 13400000. An example is given in the infographic. Ana White, a female carpenter, started a blog on Tumblr to share her love for carpentry. Now her blog has a monthly visit of 3 million, and she earns enough advertising revenue to support her family.
Groupon, launched in 2008, is the largest group buying website in the world. However, its share price has fallen by more than 80% in the past year and has been declining.
Foursquare was launched in 2009, and a location-based social network was established through "check-in". Founded in new york, Foursquare has a unique "4SQ Day" in new york on April 16 every year. As of April this year, Foursquare has 20 million registered users.
In 20 10, Google launched its Weibo and communication tool Google Buzz around the most successful product Gmail, but it was a failed product and was completely terminated by Google on 20 1 10, 12 and 15.
20 1 1, the successor of Google Buzz, Google+ is online. According to the data of September this year, Google+ currently has 400 million registered users, with monthly 1 100 million active users.
In 20 12, Pinterest showed explosive growth (largely because it was rated as "the best startup company of the year" by TechCrunch at the end of 20 1 1, and it was the fastest growing website with independent visitors100000 in website history.