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Multilingual websites
- FacebookIn January 2004, Mark Zuckerberg coded a new site known as TheFacebook while attending Harvard University. He met with Harvard student Eduardo Saverin, and…
- 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…
- WikipediaOn the 15th of January 2001, the domain name www.wikipedia.com went live for the first time. Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger had launched a project to…
- MusicBrainzRobert Kaye launched MusicBrainz in 1998 after Compact Disc Database restrictions blocked free access to audio CD information.
- YouTubeOn the 14th of February 2005, three former PayPal employees named Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, and Steve Chen registered the domain name www.youtube.com.
- Google SearchIn 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin began developing a search engine at Stanford University. They named the project BackRub because it checked backlinks to…
- Marxists Internet ArchiveA person known only by the Internet tag Zodiac began archiving Marxist texts in 1990. They started by transcribing the Communist Manifesto into E-text format.
- AirbnbIn August 2008, the website Airbedandbreakfast.com launched with a simple promise. It offered short-term living quarters and breakfast for travelers unable…
- 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.
- HuffPostOn the 9th of May 2005, Arianna Huffington launched The Huffington Post as a direct counter to the Drudge Report. Her team built an early strategy around…
- Russia BeyondThe year 2007 marked the birth of Russia Beyond The Headlines. Rossiyskaya Gazeta, a newspaper published by the government of Russia, launched this…