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1st social media site is launched. Six degrees.com, the site amassed around one million users before being bought out for $125 million and ended in 200 -
AIM was an instant messaging created by AOL. This allowed registered users to communicate in real time. -
Open Diary launches the 1st social blogging network, inventing the reader, comment, and friends only content -
Yahoo messenger was an advertisement- supported instant messaging client and associated protocol provided by Yahoo. -
MSN Messenger, later rebranded as Windows Live Messenger, is a discontinued cross-platform instant messaging client developed by Microsoft -
Live Journal, an early blogging platform and social network where users can keep a blog, journal, or diary. American programmer Brad Fitzpatrick started LiveJournal as a way of keeping his high school friends updated on his activities. -
Hot or Not- the site invited users to submit photos of themselves so others could rate their attractiveness. This site is rumored to have influenced the creators of Facebook and YouTube. -
Friendster was a social network game based in Mountain View, California, founded by Johnathan Abrams and launched in 2003. -
LinkedIn launches - a business- oriented social networking site for professional networking and career development and allows job seekers to post their CVs and employers to post jobs. -
MySpace is a social networking service that was the first to reach a global audience and had a significant influence on technology, pop culture and music. -
Facebook was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, all of whom wer students at Harvard University. Facebook became the largest social network in the world, with nearly three billion users as of 2021. -
Tagged is a social discovery website based in San Fransisco, California. It allows members to brows the profiles of anything other members, and share tags and virtual gifts. -
Bebo, which stands for “Blog Early, Blog Often” was invented to answer the question of what the name meant. -
Reddit is an American social news aggregation, web content, rating, and discussion website launches -
Twitter, one of the most popular social networking sites worldwide, launches. -
Tumblr, a popular microblogging and social networking website, launches -
Pinterest is an image sharing and social media service designed to enable saving and discovery of information on the internet using images and on a smaller scale, animated GIFs, and videos, in the form of pinboards. -
Instagram allows user to upload media that can be edited with filters and organized by hashtags and geographical tagging. -
Snapchat is a multimedia instant messaging app and service developed by Snap.Inc (originally Snapchat Inc.). One of the principal features of Snapchat is that pictures and messages are usually only available for a short time before they become inaccessible to their recipients. -
Twitchy is American video live streaming service that focuses on video game live streaming, including broadcast of esports competitions, in addition to offering music broadcasts, creative content and ‘in real life” streams. -
Tinder is an online dating and geo social networking application. Users “swipe right” to like or “swipe left” to dislike other users’ profile, which include their photo, a short bio, and a list of their interests. Tinder uses a “double- opt- in” system where both users must like each other before they can exchange messages. -
Vine was an American short-form video hosting service where users could share a seven-second long, looping video clips. -
Periscope was an American live video streaming app for Android and iOS that was acquired by Twitter, Inc. before its launch -
Discord is a VoIP and instant messaging social platform. Users have the ability to communicate with voice calls, video calls, text messaging, media and files in private chats or as part of communities called “servers”. -
Tik Tok is a short-form video hosting service owned by Chinese company ByteDance. It hosts a variety of short-form user videos, from genres like pranks, stunts, tricks, jokes, dance and entertainment with durations from 15 seconds to ten minutes.