Wikipedia
Date started- 15/1/2001.
Founder- Jimmy Wallace, Larry Sanger.
Languages- 240.
Wikipedia is one site that provides every information under the sun on anything. Once you search for anything on the internet using a search engine the first link you come across is that of Wikipedia. There were a number of online encyclopedias before Wikipedia but all of them had only limited information and they were not user friendly. But all that changed ever since Wikipedia came. This site is the number one information providing site on the internet. This site can be accessed by anyone anywhere. The number of people using and contributing at this site is increasing day by day. This site is not only in English, but supports 240 languages worldwide today.
Date started- 4/2/2004.
Founder- Mark Zuckerberg.
Face is the most famous social networking website today. In the USA this site even more popular than Google. The number of users who have Facebook profiles run into millions. There are people who are addicted 24 hours on this site! However Facebook was not the first social networking site. Facebook has changed the way people are interacting with the world today. There are a number of third party applications which can be added to Facebook enhancing its charm. Facebook is popular because it has been changing with times.
Date started- 2006
Founder- Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone.
Twitter users range from a common citizens, politicians, rich men, poor men etc. In just 140 words you can be connected to the world. One can connect to celebrities, Politicians and famous people using this site and they respond. This was unthinkable years back. Twitter has blurred the lines between the so called 'high class' and 'low class'. Now famous people want to connect to the local people using twitter. Information on any issue or topic spreads like wildfire on twitter. Twitter has become a part of life today.
You tube
Date stared- February 2005.
Founder- Chad Harley, Jawed Karim and and Steve Chen.
You tube has changed the norms of entertainment. Before this site there was no other online video sharing site on the internet at such a large scale. When You-tube started, India was facing low bandwidth and people thought that this site would not become popular because of this problem. People were reluctant to upload videos in India at that time, being limited by bandwidth. But Indian ISPs provide very good bandwidth today and You tube has reached popularity levels. Today even large videos can be uploaded in a short amount of time and people can watch their favorite clips on You tube.
Date started- 4/9/1998.
Founder- Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
Every person knows what Google is, the name is enough. There is hardly an internet user who does not know what Google is. Google means 'search'. No matter what you do on the internet, chances are that you may be visiting this search engine at least once a day. Even those who do not use Google frequently tend to use the services offered by Google like Gmail, reader, blog-spot, Picassa, You tube and Orkut.
Amazon
Date started- 1994.
Founder- Jeffrey P Bezos.
Amazon is an online purchasing site. You can purchase a commodity of your choice online by logging onto this site. Payment is made by credit card. The product is delivered to your home. Amazon has changed the way people shop today. An increasing number of people are using this site for purchasing stuff online. Now there are a number of online shopping sites but Amazon is the most famous of them all.
Hotmail
Date started- 4/7/1996.
Founder- Shabeer Bhatia and other Microsoft members.
Today youngsters and new internet users may not be much familiar with Hotmail. But hotmail was perhaps the first company offering free email services to users years ago. Initially email services were not free and even the free email accounts offered by hotmail were not easy to get. Hotmail started the revolutionary webmail based email service and made email easy to use, making it possible to access email from any computer. Microsoftsubsequently purchased hotmail in 1996. Now hotmail has been replaced by Microsoft live mail. Hotmail still brings about nostalgia in some.
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