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Universal Windows Platform apps
- 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…
- SpotifySpotify began not with a boardroom strategy but with a misheard word. When Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon were choosing a name for their new company…
- NetflixNetflix started not as a streaming service but as a company that mailed DVDs in red envelopes. Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings founded it on the 29th of…
- HidiveHidive is an American subscription streaming service that delivers Japanese anime to paid subscribers, its name always stylized in capital letters.
- Microsoft TranslatorMicrosoft Translator began not as a product aimed at consumers, but as an internal research project buried inside Microsoft's own knowledge base.
- 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.
- Paramount+Paramount+ did not start under that name. On the 28th of October 2014, CBS Corporation switched on a service called CBS All Access.
- USA TodayUSA Today hit newsstands on the 14th of September 1982, priced at 25 cents a copy, in the Baltimore and Washington D.C. metropolitan areas.
- TED (conference)TED, short for Technology, Entertainment, Design, was born in February 1984 in the same moment Silicon Valley began to imagine the future out loud.