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Today is March 21, 2022, and on this day in 1768, French mathematician and physicist Jean Fourier was born; Fourier is known for initiating the study of Fourier series and its application to heat transfer and vibration problems; The Fourier transform and Fourier's law are also named after him.

FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) is a fundamental technique for digital audio and video compression that makes the streaming technology revolution possible; Nowadays, Spotify, Netflix, and domestic websites such as Douyin, Tencent Video and Bilibili commonly used in China all use technologies derived from Fourier's mathematical discoveries to varying degrees. Looking back at March 21 in the history of computers, what other key events occurred on this day that affected our daily lives?

March 21, 2005: The Megaupload online service is launched

In our January 21 column, we tell the story of legendary hacker Kim Dotcom, a German-Finnish computer engineer and businessman who, unlike the world's stereotypes of programmers, is surrounded by luxury cars, beautiful women and cybercrime.

In 2005, Dakon founded and served as CEO of file hosting service Megaupload; Megaupload is headquartered in Hong Kong, China, and can upload large files up to 1GB with a storage time of 3 months. The company was financially successful, but in 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice seized its website and filed charges against Kim Dakang, including copyright infringement, money laundering, racketeering, and wire fraud.

The world's first tweet | Today in history

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Megaupload's web services include one-click hosting services Megaupload.com; Megapix.com, image hosting services; Megavideo.com and Megalive.com, video hosting services; and Megabox.com, a music hosting service. Other services include Megaclick, Megafund, Megakey, and Megapay, which are all advertising and financial services. At the same time, four blogs were created, including Megabest and Megaking. According to statistics, it used to be the 13th most visited website on the Internet before it was shut down, with 82,764,913 unique visitors and more than 1 billion page views.

On January 19, 2012, Megaupload was forcibly shut down by the U.S. Department of Justice for possessing a large number of copyright infringement documents; Such a sudden forced closure by the US judicial department has aroused the anger of the Internet community, and further triggered many retaliatory actions. A hacking group called Anonymous has paralyzed websites such as the U.S. Department of Justice, the Motion Picture Association of America, Universal Music, and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) to show support for the idea of freedom to share online, prompting applause from Internet users. On January 19, 2013, Megaupload was relaunched with the Mega.co.nz domain. The rerelease date was chosen to coincide with the one-year anniversary of Megaupload's ban by the FBI.

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March 21, 2005: Yahoo announces its acquisition of popular photo service Flickr

Flickr, an online photo album that provides image sharing, is one of the most successful Web 2.0 stories. It features private image licensing and hashtag classification, allowing users to serve as small blogs. Different users can communicate with each other and create communities. Flickr has changed hands several times, was acquired by Yahoo on March 21, 2005, and has been owned by SmugMug since April 20, 2018. Flickr was launched on February 10, 2004 by Ludicorp, a Vancouver-based company founded by Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake.

Early versions of Flickr focused on running a chat room called FlickrLive, with real-time photo exchange. Subsequently, Flickr focused more on the upload and archive backend for individual users, and chat rooms also withdrew from the stage of history. In addition to becoming a popular website and online community for users to share and embed personal photos, in 2004, Flickr was widely used by photo researchers and bloggers to host images they embedded in blogs and social media.

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Yahoo acquired Ludicorp and Flickr on March 20, 2005. The acquisition reportedly cost $22 million to $25 million. During the week of June 26, 2005 to July 2, 2005, all content was migrated from servers in Canada to servers in the United States; On May 3, 2007, Yahoo announced that its Yahoo Photos would be closed on September 20, 2007, after which all photos would be deleted to encourage users to migrate to Flickr. On January 31, 2007, Flickr was required to link their accounts to Yahoo before the Yahoo acquisition, a move that was criticized by some users.

On May 20, 2013, Flickr launched the first phase of its main website redesign, introducing an "Snap View" close-up photo layout with "infinite scrolling" browsing; Many users criticized the changes, and the site's forums also received thousands of negative comments. On May 7, 2015, Yahoo overhauled the site again, adding an improved camera roll, a new way to upload photos, and upgrading the site's app. In early May 2019, Flickr's new owner, SmugMug, announced plans to migrate Flickr data (more than 100 accounts and billions of photos and videos) from the servers of former owner Yahoo to Amazon Web Services (AWS) within 12 hours of May 22, 2019.

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March 21, 2006: Founder Jack Dorsey posts his first tweet on his account

I had my initial idea for Twitter when I was 15 years old working in the dispatch room, when I discovered that taxis and fire trucks broadcast their location and behavior. —— Jack Dorsey

Twitter originated as an idea for group communication using text messaging, initially for internal employees and later for external access. Twitter initially seemed like a short blog, but because of the ease of information distribution, rapid dissemination, and strong social attributes, it quickly became one of the most popular social media. On March 21, 2006, Twitter and Square co-founder Jack Dorsey posted the world's first tweet that read "just setting up my twttr."

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Twitter's predecessor was the Odeo podcasting platform, founded around 2005 by Noah Glass. Evan Williams was one of the company's early investors and became its later CEO. Soon Odeo expanded, joined by Jack Dorsey, Blaine Cook, and others. In the fall of 2005, Apple released iTunes, which had built-in music playback functions, and Odeo's business was greatly affected.

Williams reorganized the business, dividing Odeo employees into teams working on different projects. Glass and Dorsey's "All-Day Think Tank" began a project called "Twttr", which was inspired by Dorsey, and Glass ran and settled on the name "Twttr". This was inspired by the practice that Flickr and U.S. messaging services both have 5-digit codes. The developers initially used "10958" as the short number used for experimental development, but later changed it to "40404" for "convenience, practicality and memory".

In this context, Jack Dorsey came up with the idea of individuals using mobile phone texting to communicate with groups, which was inspired in part by TXTMob, a messaging group service.

Twitter began as an internal service for Odeo employees and opened to the public in July 2006. In October 2006, Beads Stone, Evan Williams, Dorsey and other members from Odeo formed Obvious Corporation and acquired Odeo Corporation and all of its assets: including Odeo.com and Twitter.com from investors and other shareholders. Then, in 2007, Twitter spun off from its original company and formed an independent company. As of 2021, Twitter has 192 million daily active users, with 63% of the global user age group between the ages of 35 and 65.

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