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Tumblr Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007, and owned by Yahoo! since 2013. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog.
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When Did the Internet Start? The end product was ARPANET. It was a small network and the nodes included Stanford, UCLA and NASA. In 1973, ARPANET went global by linking with a London University. A pivotal part of the history of the Internet occurred in the mid 1970s.
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History of Yahoo! In January 1994, Yang and Filo were electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University, when they created a website named Jerry and David's guide to the World Wide Web. The site was a directory of other websites, organized in a hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable index of pages.
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What Is Tumblr? Your home page on Tumblr, the dashboard, combines the blogs you follow into a single stream of content. Like Facebook's news feed or Twitter's timeline, the dashboard is your main stop for catching up on everything your friends have been posting. To start, just visit blogs you like and click Follow.
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- Although YouTube's birthday is officially February 14, 2005, the first video was actually uploaded to the site exactly five years ago, on April 23, 2005. It was shot by Yakov Lapitsky and it's only 19 seconds long, showing one of YouTube's founders, Jawed Karim, at the San Diego Zoo.
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- You may be surprised to find out that it wasn’t Facebook or Twitter, two of the most popular social media sites who started it all. Back in 1969, yes, that long ago, CompuServe was one of the first major commercial Internet providers in the US. They used the technology known as dial-up to connect to the web.
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Encyclopedia Facebook came out in 2004 targeting college students, but when it opened to everyone, it grew exponentially to become the top social site. Two years later, Twitter was launched with a different approach but created its own revolution within a short time. See Facebook, Google+ , LinkedIn and Twitter.
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What Year Did eBay Start? Beginning eBay. eBay, or as it was first known, Electronic Bay, began on Labor Day 1995. It was quite rudimentary by today's standards—with no guarantees, no fees, no third-party interaction to moderate disputes, and no payment platform.
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Shadbase On January 22nd, 2013, the @shadbase Twitter feed was launched, gaining over 8,400 followers in the next two years. On March 29th, Shadman launched the Shadbase Tumblr blog, highlighting many of his original artworks.
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Yahoo buys Tumblr, promises to not 'screw it up' Yahoo buys Tumblr, promises to not 'screw it up'. by Chris Isidore @CNNTech May 20, 2013: 4:24 PM ET. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer promised Monday not to screw up Tumblr, the blogging site Yahoo purchased for $1.1 billion. Yahoo announced a $1.1 billion deal for blogging site Tumblr early Monday, and said it promises not to screw it up.. The deal, which had been rumored since last Thursday, will help Yahoo to tap into the younger, active online user base at Tumblr.
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50 Things You Should Know About Tumblr The average Tumblr user visits about 67 pages every month. Tumblr is most popular with the 18-to-29 year old age bracket. About 13% of this demographic have used the site. 66% of all visitors are under the age of 35, while 39% are under 25 years-old. About 36% of users are parents.
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History of blogging While the term blog was not coined until the late 1990s, the history of blogging starts with several digital precursors to it. Before blogging became popular, digital communities took many forms, including Usenet, commercial online services such as GEnie, BiX and the early CompuServe, e-mail lists and Bulletin Board Systems (BBS).
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- Some peripheral services to the blogosphere also started in the early 2000s. Technorati, the first major blog search engine, was launched in 2002. Audioblogger, the first major podcasting service, was founded in 2003. The first video blogs started in 2004, more than a year before YouTube was founded.
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10 Entertaining eBay Facts You Might Not Know The site we now know as eBay was launched during Labor Day weekend in 1995 as “AuctionWeb,” by entrepreneur Pierre Omidyar in his living room in San Jose, California. AuctionWeb was just one of four sites housed under Omidyar's umbrella company, eBay Internet.. eBay was Originally Called AuctionWeb. This screenshot is the earliest example of the AuctionWeb homepage, circa March 1997, but the basic design did not change from May 1996 to September 1997. Click the image to see the full-sized screenshot.
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What year was Amazon.com established? Amazon was founded on July 5, 1994 by Jeff Bezos and the site went online and began service as Amazon.com in July 1995.
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- 10k + | 1 in CrunchBase. Friendster launched in 2002 as one of the first social networking sites. The service allowed users to communicate with other members, share online content and media, discover new events, brands, and hobbies. The site, at its peak, reached tens of millions of registered users; however, it has since lost its popularity.
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Complete History of Social Media: Then And Now In 1999, the first blogging sites became popular, creating a social media sensation that’s still popular today. Social Media Today. After the invention of blogging, social media began to explode in popularity. Sites like MySpace and LinkedIn gained prominence in the early 2000s, and sites like Photobucket and Flickr facilitated online photo sharing.
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25 years of the World Wide Web: Tim Berners-Lee explains how it all began Undaunted, Sir Tim went on to write the the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), HyperText Markup Language (HTML), and the first ever web browser, WorldWideWeb. The web was initially called Mesh - with World Wide Web being coined by Sir Tim in 1990. By 1993 Cern allowed the technology to be freely used by all. And within a few years millions of people worldwide were hooked on the flow of information which the web delivers.
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INSIDE PINTEREST: An Overnight Success Four Years In The Making Pinterest was started four years ago, right as the recession was really getting underway; in 2008. It had a different name and a different CEO, then. It had three cofounders. Two of them are no longer around.
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Trivia for geeks: where internet-related words come from Blog is an odd word, which means an online diary that’s usually viewable by the public. The word actually comes from a blend of the two words ‘web’ and ‘log’. A web log was the first name for an online diary, and was coined in December 1997 by Jorn Barger. The shortened name ‘blog’ was first used by Peter Merholz who broke it up into the words we blog in 1999. After that, the word ‘blog’ has been used as a verb and a noun, and lead to the word ‘blogger’ and ‘blogging’.
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YouTube The domain name YouTube.com was activated on February 14, 2005 with video upload options being integrated on April 23, 2005. The first YouTube video, titled Me at the zoo, was uploaded on April 23, 2005, and shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo.
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History of Wikipedia Founding of Wikipedia. There was considerable resistance on the part of Nupedia's editors and reviewers to the idea of associating Nupedia with a wiki-style website. Sanger suggested giving the new project its own name, Wikipedia, and Wikipedia was soon launched on its own domain, wikipedia.com, on Monday 15 January 2001.
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- Also launched in 2003 was the AdSense advertising platform, which was the first ad network to match ads to the content on a blog. AdSense also made it possible for bloggers without huge platforms to start making money from when they first started blogging (though payments to low-traffic blogs weren’t very large).
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Tumblr Development of Tumblr began in 2006 during a two-week gap between contracts at David Karp's software consulting company, Davidville (housed at Karp's former internship with producer/incubator Fred Seibert's Frederator Studios which was located a block from Tumblr's current headquarters).
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What year was Google founded? exists and is an alternate of . In January 1996, two PhD students from Stanford University named Larry Page and Sergey Brin created Google as a research project. In January 1996, two PhD students from Stanford University named Larry Page and Sergey Brin created Google as a research project.
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- A primary blog is the one you created when you signed up for Tumblr. It gives you full use of Tumblr’s social features, including follow, like, reply, ask, and submit. Secondary blogs are any blogs you create in addition to your primary blog.