- Craigslist, the free classifieds site, expands outside San Francisco in 2000, impacting newspaper publishers everywhere
- Google AdWords launched in 2000 allowing advertisers to target their customers with laser-sharp precision
- Wikipedia, the free open-source encyclopaedia, launches in 2001 and today boasts more than 14 million articles in 271 different languages and bringing strangers together on projects
- Napster shutdown in 2001, opening the file-sharing floodgates
- Google's IPO in 2004 put the search engine on the path to powering countless aspects of our everyday lives
- Online video revolution in 2006 that led to a boom in homemade and professional content on the Internet and helped reshape everything from pop culture to politics
- Facebook opens to non-college students and Twitter takes off in 2006
- The iPhone debuts in 2007 and smartphones go from a luxury item to a necessity with an app for just about every aspect of modern life
- U.S. presidential campaign in 2008 in which the Internet changed every facet of the way campaigns are run
- Iranian election protests in 2009 when Twitter proved vital in organising demonstrations and as a protest too
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