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The leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, The Webby Awards, has recently announced a list of the Top 10 Most Influential Internet Moments of the Decade. The list underscores the Internet’s impact on major decisions in the lives of people around the globe.

The following is the list:

• The expansion of Craigslist outside of its home turf, San Francisco, which revamped the accepted model of classified advertising. (2000)
• The launch of Google AdWords, which “turned advertising on its head” by opening the marketplace to any business. (2001)
• The launch of Wikipedia, which unites readers and researchers from around the world to collaborate on educational and informational projects with its 14 million articles in 271 different languages. (2001)
• The closure of Napster, which in turn gave rise to a flood of media-sharing sites, from iTunes to Hulu. (2001)
• Initial Public Offer (IPO) of Google, which helped to turn it to become the most dominant and influential company of the decade. (2004)
• The online video revolution, led by YouTube, which made amateurs into Web stars and further changed the means of how news, entertainment and advertising reaches the population. (2006)
• The open of Facebook to non-college students, and the launch of Twitter. Both have immediate and lasting effects on both the course of social networking media and how people connect with each other. (2006)
• The debut of the iPhone, which turned smart phones into items of everyday necessity. (2007)
• The utilization of Internet during the U.S. presidential campaign to inspire voters to become a part of the political process through online video, fund-raising and social media. (2008)
• The protests over the 2009 Iranian presidential election showed that social networking media like Twitter could be used as a force for positive change in a regime that could not censor the will of the people and its technology. (2009)

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