Curated playlist
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- FacebookFacebook's blue color scheme traces to Mark Zuckerberg being red-green colorblind.
- X (social network)X, formerly known as Twitter, began not as a grand vision for a global platform but as a small experiment inside a podcasting startup called Odeo. Jack Dorsey wanted to capture something specific in the name: the physical sensation of…
- SpotifySpotify got its name from a word Daniel Ek misheard across the room. Its founders later built a meaning around it.
- NetflixNetflix began as a company that mailed DVDs in red envelopes. Streaming was reportedly the real goal all along.
- HidiveHidive took over an older anime streaming service, Anime Network Online, in 2017.
- Microsoft TranslatorMicrosoft Translator grew out of Word's grammar correction feature.
- CrunchyrollCrunchyroll began in 2006 as a pirate site for fan-subtitled shows. Sony later bought it for $1.175 billion.
- Paramount+Paramount+ began in 2014 as CBS All Access, little more than CBS's website and app repackaged.
- USA TodayUSA Today's first issue sold out within hours in 1982. Critics mocked it as a "McPaper" anyway.
- TED (conference)The first TED conference in 1984 lost money. Six years passed before anyone tried again.
- Rise of the Tomb RaiderRise of the Tomb Raider, a 2015 action-adventure game from Crystal Dynamics, opens a year after Lara Croft's ordeal on Yamatai. She is an archaeologist who cannot explain the supernatural events she lived through there, and she is…