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.
- DestructoidYanier Gonzalez, a Cuban-American cartoonist and author, launched Destructoid as a personal blog in March 2006. He needed the site to attend the Electronic…
- 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…
- CrunchyrollIn mid-2006, a website called Crunchyroll launched with no legal license to distribute Japanese anime. The site operated as an unlicensed hub where fans…
- VentureBeatMatt Marshall launched VentureBeat in 2006 from San Francisco, California. He arrived at the project as an ex-correspondent for The Mercury News.
- Digital TrendsIan Bell and Dan Gaul established Digital Trends in June 2006 within Lake Oswego, Oregon. The pair launched the site as a privately funded corporation…
- GoodreadsOtis Chandler and Elizabeth Khuri Chandler met while studying at Stanford University, where he pursued engineering and she studied English.
- Google TranslateIn April 2006, Google launched a translation service that relied on statistical machine translation. The system did not translate languages directly from one…