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In this year the invention of the telegraph was made. This is thought to be one of the first forms of social media because individuals were able to communicate, network, and share messages with one another via the telegraph platform.
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Have you been to a bank and seen the tubes that allow you to make transactions with the bankers inside? The pneumatic post was invented in this year. There were air tubes set up underground that used air pressure and a vacuum to transfer solid items from one place to another. Most of the time inside the capsules there were messages or important documents.
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Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone and successful carried out the first telephone call to Thomas Watson. He later wrote in a letter to his father how monumental his invention was stating, "friends can now converse with each other without leaving home."
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Guglielmo Marconi is credited with the invention of the first transmittable radio. Although he built off the ideas of many scientists before him, Marconi was able to successful create the first wireless signal via waves.
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The invention of the computer was the first steps that led scientists to invent the internet. Konrade Zuse invented the first computer that took up approximately 1,800 square feet. Not long after his invention, scientists wanted to find a way to connect these computers to one another.
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Founded in Columbus, Ohio this is believed to be the first pioneer of the Internet. Compu-Serve is a, "computer time-sharing service." Also known as the infamous internet. Compu-Serve offered the first electronic mailing (e-mail) assistance.
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Although many do not credit UseNet as the first social media platform, it was a discussion board that allowed users to post and share content with other users
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This law made it a federal crime to access a secured computer without jurisdiction.
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This law bans and makes it a crime to access unsanctioned entry to hardwire, disclosure, and records that are exclusive.
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Internet Relay Chats or IRC's was an app that allowed its users to private message, group message, and share different documents with other users. Does this sound familar? Maybe the first MySpace or Facebook?
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This law protects individuals free speech and allots individuals to not be held responsible for what they say and do on the internet.
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Most historians agree that this was the first ever social media platform. The website permitted its users to "friend" one another, share content, and construct individualized accounts. The account got it's name after the "six degrees of seperation" theory which was a theory that stated that an two people know one other through 6 or less other individuals.
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This law is the copyright law for videos. Meaning that the owner of the video no matter what platform it is posted on has the permission to removed the video from any platform they don't want it on because they have the rights to it.
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The childrens online privacy protection act states that no person under the age of 13 is allowed to have their information collected and used for data or for other means
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This website was created for companies, businesses, and its professionals to stay connected. Linkedin is like a way for employers and it's potential employees to "link" with one another online, possibly for job opportunities, professional advice, or the chance to grow your own personal network of individuals.
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Myspace allowed the opportunity for the rest of the world to connect with one another in a more relaxed environment. People were allowed to customize their page with a specific theme and song of their choice. A person could blog, create groups, direct message, and share various types of media. Myspace was the most popular social media website until 2009.
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One of the most popular social networking sites of the Baby Boomers and Generation X, Facebook allows individuals to communicate and connect with people all across the globe. Facebook provides live streaming, news, media, and shareable content among its millions of users. Recently, Facebook teamed with online food ordering apps to enable its users to order food from there profile at the touch of their finger tips.
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Flickr was the first "Instagram." Individuals were able to share videos and pictures online. Flickr also allowed people to organize and make collages with there pictures. Not too long after Flickr, in 2005 photobucket emerged onto the internet. Photobucket was a knockoff of Flickr.
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Still used widely today, Youtube allows individuals "blog" to have a face to them. Before Youtube people would blog via text onto social media platforms. Now users could record themselves with a camera and upload their blogs for free. Users could also make music videos, listen to music, watch short clips/ movies, and use Youtube as a resource to learn.
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Twitter gave meaning to micro blogging. People now blogged with only 280 characters. This allowed for people to get news on politics, sports, current events, and other thoughts from there peers in a quick, easy, and comprehensible way.
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Tumblr is a combination of Facebook and twitter. It is a microblogging website that individuals can like, comment, and share text posts, pictures, gifs, or videos to
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Pinterest became very popular for mom's or creative individuals that like DIY activities. You can "pin" ideas, recipes, life hacks, decorative ideas, and other inspirations that you may need in your life. Not only that but Pinterest has an anesthetic appeal to it that draws many of its users in.
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Instagram, owned by Facebook, became the modern and most popular video and picture sharing social media network. With the advancement in mobile phone technology, camera's began to provide better imagery allowing for better photos.
