StumbleUpon
This spread through many posts rather than one canonical upload.
2002·Early web, before YouTube
A browser button that took the person who pressed it to a web page chosen half at random to suit their interests.
At a glanceThe facts
- Remembered as
- Stumble
- Spread in
- 2002
- Made by
- Garrett Camp, Geoff Smith, Justin LaFrance and Eric Boyd, at the University of Calgary
- Origin
- No single original
- Available
- Not held by ViralWorld
What this wasThe story
A toolbar that sent you to a random page matched to your interests. For a decade it was how a great many people found anything at all, and its closure in 2018 removed a whole mode of using the web.
Why it matteredWhat changed
In 2009 it sent more traffic to web pages in the United States than any other social site, Facebook included.
TimelineIn order
- Made
The company is founded.1
- Later
eBay buys it for more than 75 million dollars.1
- Later
Its founders buy it back for 29 million.1
- Record
It reaches 25 million registered users.1
- Taken down
It shuts down, and its accounts are moved to a successor.1
Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later
Where it came fromWhat we know
This spread through many posts rather than one identifiable original. No copy is held here — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is what this page can tell you.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this. It spread through many posts rather than from one identifiable original.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.
SourcesWhat was read
Sources last read on . That date is about the history on this page. Whether the media still plays is checked separately and can change any day. How ViralWorld documents things