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Steam (service)In September 2003, a software client quietly launched that would eventually control the majority of PC gaming, yet its initial purpose was far more mundane…
FacebookIn 2003, a Harvard undergraduate named Mark Zuckerberg built a website called Facemash that asked users to rate the attractiveness of fellow students using…
TwitterIn March 2006, a simple idea born from a text message experiment would eventually reshape global communication. Jack Dorsey, then working at Odeo, envisioned…
HBO MaxOn the 27th of May 2020, the world watched as HBO Max launched, promising to be the ultimate destination for entertainment, yet it began its life as a…
SpotifyIn 2002, when the file-sharing giant Napster was shut down by courts, a young Swedish software engineer named Daniel Ek watched the chaos unfold and realized…
TikTokTikTok is not merely an app; it is a behavioral engine that rewired how the world consumes media, launching in September 2017 as a global expansion of the…
Amazon Prime VideoOn the 7th of September 2006, a digital box appeared on the internet that would eventually hold the weight of the global entertainment industry, though no…
InstagramOn the 12th of October 2010, a simple application named Instagram launched with a single, rigid constraint: every photo had to be a perfect square.
NetflixIn 1997, two men sitting in a carpool between Santa Cruz and Sunnyvale conceived a business model that would eventually dismantle the video rental industry.
HidiveHidive began its life not as a new creation but as a resurrection of a digital ghost. The service launched in June 2017 as Hidive LLC, a newly formed entity…
MyspaceOn the 1st of August 2003, a website called MySpace launched with the audacious goal of becoming the first social network to reach a global audience.
RedditIn June 2005, two University of Virginia roommates named Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian launched a website that would eventually become one of the most…
Disney+Disney+ launched on the 12th of November 2019, just before 3:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, marking the beginning of a new era for the entertainment industry.
HuluThe name Hulu derives from two Mandarin Chinese phrases meaning 'to be happy' and 'to be pleased,' a choice that would eventually define the company's…
YouTubeOn the 14th of February 2005, three former PayPal employees gathered in a San Francisco apartment to solve a simple problem: they could not share a video of…
DiscordJason Citron, the co-founder of Discord, sold his previous company OpenFeint to GREE in 2011 for 104 million dollars, a sum that would eventually fund the…
Twitch (service)Twitch began as a single man's desire to document his life, but it evolved into the world's most dominant video game streaming platform.
CrunchyrollIn 2006, a website called Crunchyroll launched with a controversial mission: to host unlicensed, fan-subtitled anime for free, effectively operating as a…