1996

• MediaBar set up as an operating system for location based theme restaurants. Faces input into system, multi-user activity, food and drink ordering
• Microsoft's Hotmail is born

1997

• Photo.net community site (openacs history), based on Ars digita software

1999

• Virtualtourist.com (domained in 98) launches as a community travel site allowing members to self-publish, with ratings and forums
• ?August: Ciao (an ecommerce site) launched in Germany
• Blairwitch project phenomenon

2000

• ? GroupFire Bookmark sharing and personalized search spinoff out of PARC, crushed in '01 crash and assets acquired by Google (http://www.networkworld.com/archive/2000/85952_01-31-2000.html)
• ?March to June: Ciao launched in France, Italy, Spain and UK (is this when they added the circle of friends to profiles??)

2002

• 15 June: Meetup launches (src)

2003

• Sept: Original PeopleAggregator launches, is taken down within 6 months.

2004

• ? February: Flickr launched
• 31 December: 43 Things launches (src)

2005

• 20 March: Yahoo acquired Flickr
• 23 April: First video goes up on YouTube (src)

2006

• 30 June: PeopleAggregator relaunches - now as a meta-network white label solution. APIs here.
• 9 October: Google buys YouTube