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| 1986 || || || ". David Karp was born in 1986"<ref name="A History of Tumblrd">{{cite web |title=A History of Tumblr – See How David Karp Founded The Company |url=https://businessideaslab.com/tumblr-history/ |website=businessideaslab.com |accessdate=12 September 2019}}</ref>
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| 2005 || March || || "In March 2005, a 17-year-old German high school student named Chris Neukirchen invented this tumblelog system, specifically for super-short blogging. He even used the term "tumblin'" on his site Anarchaia: The only rule for tumblelogs was that they be a single paragraph — a rule that persists on many Tumblr formats today." "Anarchaia was then followed by "Projectionist," a blog project from two Americans, Marcel Molina and Sam Stephenson"<ref name="These Screengrabs Show David Karp Did NOT Invent The 'Tumblelog' That Gave Birth To Tumblr">{{cite web |title=These Screengrabs Show David Karp Did NOT Invent The 'Tumblelog' That Gave Birth To Tumblr |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/the-history-of-tumblr-2013-5 |website=businessinsider.com |accessdate=12 September 2019}}</ref>
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| 2007 || February 19 || || "In February of 2007, tumblr was launched by its founder and ceo David Karp. tumblr is a social media traditionally used for blogging and posting photos. tumblr was founded by karp out of his mother's small apartment located in Manhattan."<ref name="a Breif History of tumblr"/> "On February 19, 2007, the first version of the Tumblr microblogging service was founded by David Karp and Marco Arment."<ref name="Today in Media History">{{cite web |title=Today in Media History: David Karp and Marco Arment launched Tumblr in 2007 |url=https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2015/today-in-media-history-david-karp-and-marco-arment-launched-tumblr-in-2007/ |website=poynter.org |accessdate=12 September 2019}}</ref>
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| 2007 || November 1 || || "On 1st November 2007, the site was fully launched and the history of microblogging changed forever."<ref name="A History of Tumblrd"/>
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| 2009 || February || || "In February 2009, tumblr released its first app “tumblrette.” With this app users had the freedom to post to their blog whenever they wanted. This was the start of tumblr becoming very popular."<ref name="a Breif History of tumblr"/>
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| 2009 || || || ". In 2009, Molina was hired as Twitter's 20th engineer and continues to work there. "<ref name="These Screengrabs Show David Karp Did NOT Invent The 'Tumblelog' That Gave Birth To Tumblr"/>
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| 2011 || || || "In the middle of 2011, the Tumblr website secured venture capital worth over $40 million"<ref name="A History of Tumblrd"/>
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| 2012 || June || || "In June of 2012 tumblr released its new and improved ios app. Now users can blog from anywhere at anytime on their mobile devices faster and more efficiently . This new app improved the following massively."
