The Game - Part 2 - VJ

This learning path was inspired by the book "The Game" written by Alessandro Baricco.

From Napster to the iPhone

1999-2007

The Settlement
Conquering the Web

In 1999 a 19-year-old American student programmed a software which made your computer to share your music with other computers for free.  The boy's name was Shawn Fanning and the software's name was Napster. The Napster adventure taught people what the radical wing of the digital insurrection could do. 

2000-2001 the dot.com bubble 

2000 Stephen King published his book "Riding the Bullet" on the internet only. 

2001 - Wikipedia - An Encyclopedia made by its users (Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger; the latter was one of the few revolutionary men of the Silicon Valley to be graduated in Philosophy instead of Engineering).

2002 - Linkedin - Reid Hoffman was the first one to think about Social Networks, in this case for jobs.

2002 - 50% of data + I were digital. 

2003 BlackBerry Quark was on the market. Fhe first smartphone was created and even the first wearable computer (The word crackberry was coined meaning the phone addiction). In 2016 the BlackBerry, a sort of phone Gorbačëv, died, because it started the revolution. 

2003 - Skype

2003 - Myspace

4/02/2004 - Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg

2004 - Flickr 

2004 - Tim O'Reilly, an Irish Publisher, coined the phrase Web 2.0 (the passage from consumer to prosumer)

2004 - The TV series "Lost" was broadcast on the ABC channel (that was the turning point in the TV series history)

2005 - YouTube (400 hours of video a minute are uploaded on YouTube) - Chad Hurley and Steve Chen

2006 - Twitter

2006 - YouPorn

2007 - Amazon launched the KINDLE, an ebook reader

9/01/2007 Steve Jobs showed the first iPhone to the world on the Moscone Center stage in San Francisco. It was something new and very different from the other mobile phones just like space invaders was very different from the table-football. It was a small computer which pretended to be a toy. It had the first touch screen of the history. 

In 2007 there were 1 billion and 500 million Internet users, namely 23% of the human beings.

In 2007 there were 172 millions of websites.

In 2007 there were 88 millions of Amazon customers.

In 2007 72% of Americans had a personal computer at home

Social networks and the iPhone changed everything and turned the world and everyday's life into a big game.