World Wide Web from Y2K to Today
My last ten years online have been pretty amazing. Let’s take a look at the world wide web from Y2K to today.
2000: Napster gets sued for music file sharing violations by Metallica, Dr. Dre, Madonna and A&M Records. The site shuts down the following year after an RIAA injunction.
2001: iTunes launches as the killer music app for the iPod.
2002: Napster files Chapter 11 and is forced to liquidate it’s assets.
2003: MySpace & WordPress debut. WordPress becomes a leading open source content management system.
2004: Firefox 1.0 debuts as an alternative standalone browser to the bloated Mozilla web suite that includes Netscape.
2005: YouTube & Google Earth debut. My first blog posts appear on ThisCrazyCosmos.
2006: Twitter debut, Facebook opens registration to the public, instead of just students.
2007: DailyRover, my new blog about the web goes online.
2008: Google’s Chrome browser debuts after public beta. Napster is purchased by Best Buy.
2009: Internet Explorer 8.0 is introduced as the first real Windows browser upgrade since IE7 in 2006. Google Chrome replaces Safari as the number three web browser of choice, behind Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.
2010: What will happen next? Will Twitter finally find a way to make money? More users than ever will Tweet this coming year, especially from the Olympic Games via iPhones and other mobile platforms.
It’s a given that Chrome will take market share from both leading browsers as Google continues world domination. YouTube will continue to create new sensations from home video, and Facebook just keeps getting bigger. I’m sure someone, somewhere is already making predictions for 2010.
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
Written by: Mike
Tags: Apple, Best Buy, Chrome, Facebook, Google, Google Earth, IE7, Internet Explorer, iPod, iTunes, Mozilla Firefox, MySpace, Napster, Netscape, RIAA, Safari, Twitter, Web, WordPress, YouTube
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Comments (1)
March 8th, 2010 at 8:11 am
[...] So what does that mean? Well, often I have to look back at where I’ve been, in order to figure out where I’m going. In a previous post I wrote about the past ten years, the World Wide Web from Y2K to Today. [...]