History of Social Media

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  • Major events in the history of social media before 1990

    Major events in the history of social media before 1990

    In 1792, the telegraph was invented. This allowed messages to be delivered over a long distance far faster than a horse and rider could carry them.
  • Major events in the history of social media before 1990.

    Major events in the history of social media before 1990.

    Two important discoveries happened in the last decade of the 1800's: The telephone in 1890 and the radio in 1891.
  • Major events in the history of social media before 1990

    Major events in the history of social media before 1990

    Although no longer popular outside of drive-through banking, the pneumatic post, developed in 1865, created another way for letters to be delivered quickly between recipients. A pneumatic post utilizes underground pressurized air tubes to carry capsules from one area to another.
  • Major events in the history of social media before 1990.

    Major events in the history of social media before 1990.

    After the first super computers were created in the 1940's, scientists and engineers began to develop ways to create networks between those computers, and this would later lead to the birth of the Internet.
  • Major events in the history of social media during the 1990's

    Major events in the history of social media during the 1990's

    By the 1980's, home computers were becoming more common and social media was becoming more sophisticated. Internet relay chats, or IRCs, were first used in 1988 and continued to be popular well into the 1990’s.
  • Major events in the history of social media during the 1990's

    Major events in the history of social media during the 1990's

    Additionally, the emergence of blogging in the 1990's helped usher in the age of social media. The idea that an average person could log on to the internet and write about what they were thinking, feeling, and doing, and that these posts could be read by anyone at any time, and responded to, helped people begin to understand the full significance of the internet.
  • Major events in the history of social media during the 1990's

    Major events in the history of social media during the 1990's

    The first recognizable social media site, Six Degrees, was created in 1997. It enabled users to upload a profile and make friends with other users.
  • Major events in the history of 1990's

    Major events in the history of 1990's

    LiveJournal was a platform where users could blog as a form of keeping friends updated with their lives, a format later used by Facebook for their status.
  • Major events in the history of social media between 2000-2010

    Major events in the history of social media between 2000-2010

    After the invention of blogging, social media began to explode in popularity. Sites like MySpace and LinkedIn gained prominence in the early 2000's, and sites like Photobucket and Flickr facilitated online photo sharing.
  • Major events in the history of social media between 2000-2010

    Major events in the history of social media between 2000-2010

    A few years later, in 2002, the site Friendster emerged to compete with Six Degrees. Like Six Degrees, it allowed users to make contacts and save them as part of a personal network. People could also share videos, photos, and messages with other users, and they were also able to leave comments on other people’s profiles, so long as they were part of each other’s personal network.
  • Major events in the history of social media between 2000-2010

    Major events in the history of social media between 2000-2010

    YouTube came out in 2005, creating an entirely new way for people to communicate and share with each other across great distances.
  • Major events in the history of social media between 2000-2010

    Major events in the history of social media between 2000-2010

    Instagram was launched on October 6, 2010 by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. It separated itself from the competition by focusing exclusively on video and photos, and by only allowing photos to be framed in a square (a restriction which was lifted in 2015). ‘
  • Major events in the history of social media from 2011 until now

    Major events in the history of social media from 2011 until now

    Snapchat was started by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown in September 2011. Its distinguishing feature was that it allowed users to send photos to one another that would disappear shortly after being opened.
  • Major events in the history of social media from 2011 until now

    Major events in the history of social media from 2011 until now

    Short videos and mega views. Vine a video hosting service specializing in short video, goes public in June. Twitter acquires vines for $30 million in the October in that year.
  • Major events in the history of social media from 2011 until now

    Major events in the history of social media from 2011 until now

    UK's INSTA ADS. Instagram bring sponsored ads to target the UK in September following their inclusion on the app in America.
  • Major events in the history of social media from 2011 until now

    Major events in the history of social media from 2011 until now

    Vr and fake news. Virtual reality, live videos, and 360 degree videos reigned all video content on social media sites. Like (Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. There was a crackdown on fake news throughout social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.