The platform has become a core technology around the world, relied on by governments and extended families alike, Sam Knight writes. What are we all doing there?
The first WhatsApps weren’t WhatsApps. In the spring of 2009, Jan Koum, a thirty-three-year-old computer programmer, was trying to get people interested in a product he had developed for Apple’s App Store, which had opened the previous summer. Koum t… [38221 chars]
Source: The New Yorker | Published: 2026-01-12T11:00:00Z
Credit: The New Yorker
