2009
- WhatsApp and Uber launch
- Minecraft goes public
2010
- iPad and Instagram released
2011
- Siri announced
2012
- Facebook buys Instagram
- Google Drive launches
2013
- Snowden leaks NSA docs
- Oculus Rift released
2014
- Apple Pay and HTML5 launched
2015
- Alexa and Apple Watch launch
- OpenAI founded
2016
- TikTok and Pokemon Go launches
2017
- AlphaGo beats human players
- Fortnite release
2018
- Alibaba AI beats humans on a test
- Google publishes Transformer paper
2019
- Slack goes public
- WeWork’s IPO collapses
2020
- Zoom usage skyrockets
2021
- NFTs explode
- Google and Apple lawsuits over App Store policies
2022
- ChatGPT launches
- Elon Musk buys Twitter
- Meta loses billions on the metaverse
2023
- GenAI explodes
- ChatGPT becomes fastest-growing app
2024
- EU AI Act in force
- SpaceX catches rocket
2025
- China's open AI model DeepSeek shocks the world