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1995
- Ebay.com and Amazon.com were launched.
- There was an estimated 100,000 websites operating which is up from the estimated 623 in 1993.
1998
- Google.com opens their doors with only a staff of three.
1999
- Blogger.com appears on the web and was one of the first popular weblog publishing tools.
- Craigslist.com began as San Francisco's email list of art events. Today Craigslist has become an online classified ads-listing company.
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- Google.com handles over 100 million queries a day.
- On the average 52 million adults are online.
- There are 25.6 million web sites by year end.
2001
- Apple Computer introduces the iPod.
2002
- 65% of American children between the ages of 12 to 17 use the Internet. This percentage is up from 41% in the year 2000.
2003
- Friendster.com and MySpace.com are launched. These two sites, known as social networking sites' is now in our vocabulary.
- The one-millionth iPod was sold.
2004
- The term 'Podcasting' is the dubbed name for audio blogging.
- How-to articles began to appear.
- In a typical day there were 128 million U.S. adults online.
2005
- There were 79 million U.S. and 168 million worldwide Ebay.com members.
- There are 40 million membersaccessing MySpace.com.
- 87% of the 12 to 17 year olds access the Internet.
- Technorati tracks 22.9 million blogs.
- Each month on Craigslist.com 10 million members seach 6.5 million classified postings.
Hope you enjoyed our trivia timeline, watch for more in the future.
Web trivia was compiled from the Pew Reseach Center for
The People and The Press survey conducted in September 2005.
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