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Webby's most Influential Moments of the decade
Ricardo Trejo
Wikipedia's launch, Napster's shut down, and the 2008 US Presidential Election are just some picks from the Webby Award's top 10 most influential internet moments of the decade. For those who are unaware, the Webby's, done by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, have been going for some time. As earlier as 1996, each year they have selected and awarded those who've contributed in someway to the ever expanding internet.
This year, with the near closing of the decade, they decided to make up a list of the things that have affected the way in which we even see, and use, the internet; the way in which we consume media, research topics, and communicate with each other. Whether it was Twitter's success in the states and internationally, Obama's use of the internet (likened to Kennedy's use of TV), or the iPhone changing everyone's opinion of what a phone could really do. It's a nice trip down memory lane, culminating everything that makes the net the place it is today.
Listed from past to present:
Craigslist expands outside San Francisco (2000)
Google AdWords launches (2000)
Wikipedia launches (2001)
Napster Shut Down (2001)
Google IPO (2004)
Online video revolution (2006)
Facebook opens to non-college students and Twitter takes off (2006)
The iPhone debuts (2007)
U.S. Presidential Campaign (2008)
Iranian election protests (2009)
[Webby's via HollyWoodReporter]
