Webby's list of the 10 most influential Internet moments of the decade:
*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 encyclopedia,
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 organizing demonstrations and as a protest too

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