Curated category
Internet properties established in 2006
- Dread CentralThe 4th of July 2006 marked the birth of Dread Central. A planned horror-themed cable television channel had stalled before it could launch.
- DestructoidDestructoid began not as a publication but as a plan to get into a party. In March 2006, Yanier Gonzalez, a Cuban-American cartoonist and author, founded a…
- TwitterIn March 2006, Jack Dorsey sent the first message from a service called twttr to a small group of Odeo employees. The prototype relied on Short Message…
- Amazon Prime VideoOn the 7th of September 2006, Amazon launched a service called Amazon Unbox in the United States. This early iteration allowed users to download movies and…
- Film School RejectsNeil Miller launched Film School Rejects in February 2006. The blog began as a simple platform for movie reviews and industry news.
- PlayStation NetworkSony launched the PlayStation Network in November 2006 as a unified online service for its third home console. The system replaced the fragmented online…
- CrunchyrollCrunchyroll launched on the 14th of May 2006 as a pirate site. It hosted East Asian shows subtitled by fans, operating entirely outside the law.
- VentureBeatVentureBeat launched in 2006 with a simple premise: technology news written for people who build companies. Matt Marshall, a former correspondent for The…
- Digital TrendsDigital Trends started in Lake Oswego, Oregon in June 2006, the creation of two co-founders named Ian Bell and Dan Gaul.
- GoodreadsGoodreads launched in January 2007 with a deceptively simple premise: recreate the feeling of browsing a friend's bookshelf.
- Google TranslateIn April 2006, Google launched a translation service that relied on statistical machine translation. The system did not translate languages directly from one…