Rickard Falkvinge, Pirate party founder and first leader, writes a chat message in a Direct Connect hub on New Year's Day in 2006, announcing the launch of the Pirate party and his new web site. What happened next came as a surprise to him, and everybody else.

Spotify is founded in April 2006 by Swedes Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. It's a brand new streaming service for music, available in a free version with commercials, or as a paid, commercial-free version.

A group of human rights activists, journalists and techs start a new organization to distribute classified material leaked from governments and corporations. Sweden is about to play an important part – in more than one way.

In 2007 Peter Löthberg builds the world's fastest internet in his mother's house. 40 Gbps, thousands of times faster than an average modem.

Markus "Notch" Persson creates Minecraft in 2009. It's a block building adventure that takes over the world.

Continuous expansion of the fiber network in Sweden connects more and more of the sparsley populated country, and Sweden is to be one of the top countries in the world in fiber connectivity.

Felix Kjellberg begins studying industrial economy at Chalmers University of Technology, but drops out to focus on his Youtube channel. That turns out to be a smart move.

On December 14 2010 the journalist Johanna Koljonen starts a discussion on Twitter about how to talk about the gray areas surrounding sexual harassment.

A user-friendly way to identify yourself online is developed not by the government, but by Swedish banks.

In April 2012 you start getting messages from Facebook friends about the game "Candy Crush", which has been added to the social network.

Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder, internet pioneer is in August 2013 the first (and so far only) Swede in the Internet Hall of Fame.

The most common profession in Stockholm is not teacher, nor sales clerk or nurse, but systems developer and software programmer. In 2014 there are 22.000 people in Stockholm with this profession.

Unicorn factory, tech superstar and startup capital of Europe. In recent years, Stockholm has been lauded by international press as well as researchers and investors.

Do you sometimes curse your slow internet and buffering videos? Sweden is in top among countries when we measure broadband speeds.

Less than two weeks before their IPO, Swedish payment company Izettle gets an offer they can't refuse from Paypal.