Curated category
Multilingual websites
- FacebookFacebook launched on the 4th of February 2004 from a Harvard dorm room, and within two decades it would be used by more than three billion people every month.
- 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…
- WikipediaWikipedia launched on the 15th of January 2001 as a single English-language web page with the domain name www.wikipedia.com.
- MusicBrainzMusicBrainz started as an act of defiance. When the Compact Disc Database, known as CDDB, placed restrictions on its data, a project rose to replace it with…
- YouTubeYouTube uploaded its very first video on the 23rd of April 2005 - a clip called "Me at the zoo" showing co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo.
- Google SearchGoogle Search began in 1996 in the most unglamorous of settings: the garage of Susan Wojcicki's home in Menlo Park, California.
- Marxists Internet ArchiveThe Marxists Internet Archive began in 1990 with a single person typing the Communist Manifesto into plain text. Nobody knew who they were.
- AirbnbAirbnb began not with venture capital or a business school pitch, but with an air mattress on the floor of a San Francisco apartment.
- The Times of IsraelThe Times of Israel launched in February 2012. Journalist David Horovitz and American billionaire Seth Klarman co-founded the publication.
- Sputnik (news agency)On the 10th of November 2014, a new entity named Sputnik emerged from the Russian government-owned news agency Rossiya Segodnya.
- HuffPostHuffPost launched on the 9th of May 2005, with a very specific target in mind: the Drudge Report. Arianna Huffington, Andrew Breitbart, Kenneth Lerer, and…
- Russia BeyondRussia Beyond has operated under at least four different names since it first appeared in 2007. What began as Russia Beyond The Headlines, a newspaper insert…