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Social Media
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Compuserve
Founded by Jeffery Wilkins
Connected people by phone -
First Email Sent
Ray Tomlinson sent the first emails to himself on two different computers -
BBS
The Bullention Board System was founded for file transfers, reading news articles, and exhanging messages between users. Founded by Ward Christintensen and Randy Suess. -
Usenet
Allowed Users to communicate through a virtual newspaper, founded in Chapel Hill and Duke university in NC (!) -
Progidy Online Service
Founded through CBS, IMB, and Sears it allowed access to news, weather, shopping, games, and polls. -
Internet Relay Chat
Allowed users to chat with other users on the internet. Created by Jarkko Oikarinen from Finland -
World Wide Web early drafts
Tim Lee began working at CERN for what would become the World Wide Web. -
World Wide Web goes Public
The World Wide Web went public to everyone. -
First Web page
Created by Tim Lee -
Mosaic
The first popularized graphical Web Browser goes up, created by Mark Andreesson. -
First Blog
Justin Hall creates the first web blog, titled 'Justin's Links' -
Geocities
One of the world's first social-networking sites is launched, by David Bohnett. Users could select 'cities' to place their home page. -
Hotmail
One of the first email software is created by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia. -
ICQ
A free instant messaging program -
Google
Founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, it would soon become a major search engine. -
7 Million computers connected
At this point, over 7 million computers are connected to the internet -
Livejournal
An online journal/blog program is created by Brad Fritzpatrick in Russia -
Blogger
One of the largest blogging websites is created by Pyra Labs -
DeviantArt
An online social-media site where users can upload photo's and artwork. Created by Scott Jarkoff, it has over 265 million uploads. -
Wikipedia
An online encyclopedia was proposed by Richardstallman and later launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, offering information about nearly every subject -
Apple Ipods
The first Ipods are created by Steve Jobs Apple Corporation. -
Friendster
A site where you can communicate with other online users and showcase photo's is created in Malayasia -
Wordpress
A free blogging website with a web hosting software, it was created by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little -
Skype
A webcam chat based program is launched by a group of Estonian developers. -
MySpace
A social networking site mostly focused on music, made by Tom Anderson. -
Facebook
Facebook is created by Mark Zuckerberg and launched in Septemeber, 2004. Users can upload text and photo's for other's to like. -
Youtube
A video-hosting website created by thee former paypal employee's, people can create their own channels and like and favorite video's -
Twitter
Twitter was created as a microblogging website which allowed members to send short 'tweets' to each other, created mainly by Jack Doresly -
Tumblr
Created by David Karp, Tumblr is a service which allows users to post multi-media onto their own blogs. -
Apple Iphone
Apple (Steve Jobs) releases their first Iphone, which can go on social networking websites -
Pinterest
A pin-board style photo-sharing website created by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp. As of June 2013, it has over 70 million users worldwide -
Instagram
An online photo and video-sharing social networking website was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Kreiger in 2010, and grew to up to 100 million users in 2012/ -
Vine
Vine is a app owned by Twitter founded by Dave Hoffman which lets users take a 7-second long video to show to others. -
Internet Population: 2.4 Billion Users
By June 2012, over 2.4 Billion users are on the internet.