Results: The History of News & Communication *Part Ninety-Seven* Commercialization of the Internet

2004: "The" Facebook opens to college students "The" Facebook open to college students Facebook launched in 2004, though at the time it was only open to college students and was called "The Facebook"; later on, "The" was dropped from the name, though the URL http://www.thefacebook.com still works. Do you have a Facebook account?

February 14 2005: YouTube is launched – streaming video for the masses, bringing free online video hosting and sharing to the masses. Chad Hurley, Steve Chen & Jawed Karim created a website to upload and share videos. Did you know that Google acquired Youtube for $1.65 Billion in early 2007?

Twitter launched in 2006 by founders jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, Noah Glass and Evan Williams. It was originally going to be called twittr (inspired by Flickr); the first Twitter message was "just setting up my twttr" by Jack Dorsey. It increased in popularity at an incredible pace. Were you aware that by 2016 Twitter peaked at 318 million active users, then saw a significant decline?

In 2007 a major move to place TV shows online. Hulu was first launched in 2007, a joint venture between ABC, NBC, and Fox to make popular TV shows available to watch online. The Walt Disney Company, through its subsidiary ABC Enterprises Inc. (owner of the American Broadcasting Company), announced on April 30, 2009, that it had taken an equity stake in Hulu and would provide some of its television shows and feature films through Hulu and associated Web partners such as AOL. Have you ever had an acount with Hulu?

2007: The iPhone and the Mobile Web; The biggest innovation of 2007 was almost certainly the iPhone, which was almost wholly responsible for renewed interest in mobile web applications and design. Did you buy the original iphone in 2007?