Curated category
Internet properties established in 2006
- Dread CentralDread Central launched on the 4th of July 2006, a date that carries its own kind of symbolic weight: independence day, in more ways than one.
- 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 RejectsFilm School Rejects launched in February 2006, founded by Neil Miller with a clear purpose: to cover movies seriously, from reviews and interviews to…
- PlayStation NetworkPlayStation Network is preparing to disappear, at least by name. In March 2026, reports emerged that Sony would drop the names ‘PlayStation Network’ and…
- 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 TranslateGoogle Translate launched on the 28th of April 2006, initially capable of handling just a handful of language pairs. By May 2013, more than 200 million…