Ask Jeeves was a search engine launched in 1997 that featured a butler mascot based on P.G. Wodehouse's fictional character Reginald Jeeves, allowing users to…
Pets.com was a dot-com company launched in 1998 that sold pet supplies online, becoming infamous for its sock puppet mascot that sang "If You Leave…
WebCrawler was the first search engine to provide full-text search capabilities, launched in April 1994 by Brian Pinkerton at the University of Washington. Unlike earlier…
CompuServe was the first major commercial online service, launching consumer operations in 1979 and becoming the original online portal with email, chat rooms, forums, and…
NCSA Mosaic was the first popular graphical web browser, released in January 1993 by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina at the University of Illinois. Mosaic…
Broadcast.com was one of the first internet streaming services, founded in 1995 by Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner to stream live audio and video content…
Friendster was one of the first social networking services, launched in 2002 by Jonathan Abrams to help people connect with friends and meet new people…
MySpace was a social networking platform launched in 2003 that became the world's largest social network by 2005, known for highly customizable user profiles, music…
LiveJournal was a blogging and social networking platform launched in 1999 by Brad Fitzpatrick that combined personal journaling with community features, allowing users to create…
Internet Relay Chat was a text-based real-time communication protocol created in 1988 that organized conversations into channels, allowing multiple users to chat simultaneously in topic-based…