Welcome to SEO Advantage’s Friday Trivia feature, where we’ll discuss, dissect and comment on the history of the internet and marketing, and how the two intertwine.
Each of the events listed here was the beginning of something that would become integral to the online marketing world. Which happened first?
A. Facebook launched
B. The first commercial mobile internet device debuted
C. Google launched
Answer: B
The Facebook launch occurred in 2004, so it hasn’t been that long relatively, and Google began their journey to the top of internet search in 1998. It was before that, in 1996, that the first mobile handheld device accessed an internet without “like” buttons, or even Google search.
The phone was the Nokia 9000 Communicator, and it was released in Finland. In the years since, the technology has become commonplace. These days many people wouldn’t dream of buying a phone without internet access. You can hardly leave your house in the U.S. without seeing someone busily surfing the web on a mobile device.
It has actually taken many corners of the web a long time to catch up, though, and while mobile website technology is improving and becoming more common, you can still find yourself surprised by big name websites that don’t play will with mobile, even today.
That’s changing, though. Improvement and growth in mobile web technology made our list of online marketing predictions for this year, and it seems apparent that the web will continue to adapt to its users, as it always has.
So, were you surprised to know that mobile access preceded even a web fixture like Google?