History of social media By Ioanna Zafeiriou 1978 Bulletin Board System is launched 1988 Internet Relay Chat 1991 The World Wide Web goes public 1995 Personal home-page service GeoCities 1996 Web-based mail service Hotmail 1999 Blog-publishing service Blogger 1999 P2P file-sharing service Napster 2002 Business network LinkedIn 2003 Social networking website MySpace 2004 Social networking service Facebook 2004 Image/video hosting website Flickr 2006 Video-sharing website Youtube 2006 News and social networking service Twitter 2007 Microblogging website Tumblr 2010 Photo/video-sharing social network Instagram 2010 Photo sharing service Pinterest 2011 Multimedia messaging app Snapchat
