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Larry Page and Sergey Brin officially incorporated Google Inc. in a garage in Menlo Park, California. The search engine had already been processing around 10,000 search queries per day. Google's name is a play on the word 'googol', a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros.

MySpace launched and quickly became the most visited website in the United States, overtaking Google in 2006. It introduced millions of people to profile pages, friend lists, the all-important Top 8, and the ability to embed a song that played automatically — often a source of great annoyance to anyone opening your page at work.

Google launched Gmail on April Fools Day 2004, offering 1 gigabyte of email storage — 500 times more than Hotmail's 2MB limit. Many people assumed it was an April Fools prank. Invitations were so coveted they were being sold on eBay for up to $150. It forced all competitors to dramatically increase their storage limits.

Three former PayPal employees — Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim — founded YouTube in a garage above a pizzeria in San Mateo. The first video uploaded was 'Me at the zoo' by co-founder Jawed Karim, just 18 seconds long. Google acquired YouTube 18 months later for $1.65 billion in stock.

Rich Skrenta and Bob Truel, Sun Microsystems developers, launched DMOZ.org on June 5, 1998. It became a non-commercial, multilingual catalog of websites maintained by volunteer editors. DMOZ grew to become the largest human-edited web directory in history and powered Google's early directory system before closing in 2017.

On June 6, 2012, the Internet Society coordinated World IPv6 Launch, permanently enabling IPv6 for participating websites, ISPs, and network hardware manufacturers. Major companies like Google, Facebook, and Yahoo permanently switched on IPv6 alongside IPv4. This marked the transition to the next-generation internet protocol with 340 trillion trillion trillion addresses (2^128), solving IPv4 address exhaustion. Global IPv6 traffic has grown more than 5000% since this launch [web:43][web:49][web:51].