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History of WhatsApp from small then to big to worldwide.

Muzammil
2 min readJan 28, 2025

WhatsApp is among the applications that have covered such vast ground since it was first invented in the year 2009. Brian Acton and Jan Koum invented it. Presently, this application is one of the easiest applications through which one can easily send his messages, since more than 2 billion are its monthly active users. This section discusses WhatsApp history, its features, and how it has been changing modern communications.

History of WhatsApp

In the year 2009, two former Yahoo employees, Brian Acton and Jan Koum, initiated WhatsApp. The application was designed with an outlook that would give users easy and efficient communication through a reliable network. What WhatsApp brought forth in the year 2010 was its mark feature- Internet-based messaging. Features on WhatsApp
WhatsApp has developed over the years:

1. WhatsApp has added end-to-end encryption wherein all the messages shared through the app are safe and confidential since 2016.
2. Group chats: WhatsApp enables the creation of a group of 256 people with whom one can converse with…

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