Webby awards: What's your most influential internet moment?
- November 19, 2009 1:30 PM |
- By POV
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, delivers his five-word acceptance speech after being honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 13th annual Webby Awards June 8, 2009, in New York. (Jason DeCrow/Associated Press)
Organizers of the Webby awards for online content have announced their picks for the 10 most influential internet moments of the decade. What were your favourites?
The launches of Wikipedia and Google's AdWords, the election of U.S. President Barack Obama and the closing of Napster are among the most influential internet moments of the decade, according to those who judge the annual Webby awards.
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, "epitomizes the internet's power to bring strangers from around the world together to collaborate on projects both big and small," while Google's targeted text ad system "turned advertising on its head," the award's organizers said in a news release.
The 2008 U.S. presidential election transformed every aspect of the way election campaigns are fought, they said.
The Webby awards, which made their debut in 1996, are judged by a 650-member jury that includes one of the internet's inventors, Vint Cerf, as well as Simpsons creator Matt Groening and media magnate Martha Stewart.
What's your pick for most influential internet moment of the decade? Do you agree with the Webby selections?
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