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		untotal on May 17, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Yahoo buys GeoCities (1999) For the history books, Yahoo's M&A has been more trend-defining than anybody else. Geocities in 1999 -- spawned the dot com rush Flickr (2005) -- the official web 2.0 start date! Tumblr (2013) -- ???

encoderer on May 17, 2013 [–]

I'm not sure what you mean by the "dot com rush" but if there was a singular "dot com" starting-gun, it was the Netscape IPO a few years earlier.

nolok on May 17, 2013 | [–]

And "web 2.0" was mostly "started" with gmail in 2004

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