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In 1972 the DCT (discrete cosine transform) compression technique is proposed by Nasir Ahmed. This is the most commonly used data compression system on social media.
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Talkomatic was created by Dave Woolley and Douglas Brown in 1973, it is a multi-use chat room application and it is an instant sensation among the users in PLATO’s online community.
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In 1974 The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) was released thus evolving ARPANET into the modern day internet.
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Around the 1980’s The Bulletin Board System (BBS) is created and becomes one of the earliest forms of social media still used until the mid 1990’s.
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Fidonet forms as the Bulletin board systems start to be able to send emails starting in North America in 1984.
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Apple releases the Classic Mac OS design for their computers. This was credited to having popularized graphical user interface. Which is an interface that allows users to interact with electronical devices through graphical icon. This allows social media to begin to exist
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Internet Relay Chat was introduced by Jarkko Oikarinen, this facilities communication in the form of text. Mainly designed for group communication but allowsone on one chats and file sharing
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Classmates is launched, founded by Randy Conrad’s. Originally launched as a list of school affiliations. This site eventually allowed former and current classmates to find each other.
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ICQ is released by Israeli company Mirabilis. It is a cross platform messenger which includes private chats between users when they login. They can login from any device because of cloud synchronization.
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One of the first true social media sites Six Degrees is made. You can set up a profile page, create list of connections and send messages within networks.
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Originally meant to be a dating site when created in 2002, the platform quickly developed far past that as a social networking site such as what Instagram and Facebook are today. It was the first big general social media platform but the servers could not handle the influx of online traffic and it ended up leading to its downfall.
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This was a website that was created for teens to be able to interact with public figures. These included music, videos and badly shot, half-nude selfies.
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Started by the launching of Facebook, this 2 year period was a very innovative time for social media, as Facebook reached great heights in its first years and other giants like LinkedIn, Flickr, and others established themselves for business world social media and photosharing just to name a few.
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Twitter is the scene in 2006 but soon changed its name to the recognizable name, “Twitter” that we know today. It was originally intended to be a message service between friends but became the near microblog it is today as it was used by its customers. Posting the same often trivial life updates as is often posted now on the platform.
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This website launches and is considered the adult version of myspace. This would allow people to connect on a more professional level with a variety of jobs and subscription areas.
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Twitter is the scene in 2006 but soon changed its name to the recognizable name, “Twitter” that we know today. It was originally intended to be a message service between friends but became the near microblog it is today as it was used by its customers. Posting the same often trivial life updates as is often posted now on the platform.
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This partnership helped different interactions with popular content creators. This helps the creators have a platform and be able to make a profit after it.
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This application/ website launches and they use the phrase "Twitter meets Youtube and WordPress. This site is able to be a place for people post pictures, videos, and texts to be able to start a trend,
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Emojis had been gaining popularity in the 2000’s originating from Japan and Unicode realized how challenging it was to do social media without a thumbs up symbol so they adopted emojis to fill these gaps and that ended up being the start of using emojis as a pseudo language. Now everyone uses them today including I imagine most if not all of this class.
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This website/ application launches and ends up becoming the newest and hottest site. People started to be able to post photos with filters and highly curated feeds.
