What was going on with the Internet in 2011
Microsoft Buys Skype for $8.5 billion.SnapChat launched. In March 2017 SnapChat will go public under the trading symbol SNAP and raise almost $30 billion in market capitalization on the first day of trading.
In October 2011 Apple introduced Siri, their personal assistant feature of the iPhone 4S. The voice of Apple's first iteration of Siri was a voice actor named Susan Bennett. She made recordings for ScanSoft in 2005, unaware that Apple would use them for Siri years later.
On November 15, 2011 the comedy video website College Humor Originals created a video having fun with Siri. (Warning: College Humor video includes adult language).