Are these the top 10 influential internet moments of the Noughties?

Posted by: Nadia Owen, Business Communications 16 Dec 09 - 10:58AM | Fun | Search Marketing | Social Media | World Wide Web

Craigslist, the free classifieds site, expands outside San Francisco in 2000, impacting newspaper publishers everywhere.

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Google AdWords launched in 2000 allowing advertisers to target their customers with laser-sharp precision.

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Wikipedia, the free open-source encyclopedia, launches in 2001 and today boasts more than 14 million articles in 271 different languages and bringing strangers together on projects.

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Napster shutdown in 2001, opening the file-sharing floodgates.

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Google's IPO in 2004 put the search engine on the path to powering countless aspects of our everyday lives.

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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.

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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.

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U.S. presidential campaign in 2008 in which the Internet changed every facet of the way campaigns are run.

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Iranian election protests in 2009 when Twitter proved vital in organizing demonstrations and as a protest too.

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...and could 2009 end with the Christmas Number 1 single being Rage Against The Machine instead of the usual X-Factor domination, thanks to a viral campaign that commenced on Facebook? We shall soon see...

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