It’s hard to believe, but…

Ten years ago…

• The first video was uploaded to YouTube.
• Facebook, then just a year old, dropped “the” from its old URL “thefacebook.com” after acquiring “facebook.com” for $200K.
• An early prototype of an autonomous car completed the DARPA Grand Challenge for the first time.
• The term “drone” meant a military weapon system.
• Bitcoin and blockchain didn’t exist, and wouldn’t be created for three more years.
• Android was a small startup that Google had just acquired.
• There were 6.4 billion humans on Earth, only ~1 billion were online, and none of them had heard of Uber or AirBnb. Read more