Flickr, 2 years old
It’s pretty amazing how quickly a new company, web site, etc. can become such a part of life that you forget what we did without it. Flickr’s birthday has made me think about a bunch of others:
- Amazon - 1995
- Craigslist - 1995 (on Usenet)
- eBay - 1995
- Google - 1998
- Napster - 1999
- BitTorrent - 2001
- iPod & iTunes - 2001 (iTunes was Mac only until 2003)
- Wikipedia - 2001
- Mozilla Firefox 1.0 - 2004
As well as ones I can’t believe have been around for so long:
- Plasma TV technology - 1964
- LCD monitors - 1968
- GSM - 1987
