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  They had to hand write letters and deliver them by hand before the 1900's. In 550 B.C.
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  In 1792 the Telegraph was invented.
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  A message sent from Baltimore to Washington D.C.
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  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.
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  The military wanted to connect universities on a Proto-Internet
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  Internet relay chats, or IRCs, were first used in 1988 and continued to be popular well into the 1990’s.
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  Six Degrees had a peak of about 1 million members
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  Live journal was able to let friends see what is going in each others lives by doing blogs.
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  Considered a widely considered one of the biggest blunders of Silicon Valley
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  Helped people with business stuff to talk about it.
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  MySpace became the largest social media site in the world
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  google creates it's own email service
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  Facebook was launched in 2004 by Mark Zuckerburg. Was originally made for Harvard students then it became public for people over the age of 13.
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  people can upload and share videos.
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  MySpace became the most popular network in the U.S. during 2006
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  65 million tweets are sent out a day, around 750 tweets per second
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  An image messaging app
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  Vine was created a video hosting service goes public in june
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  Instagram brings sponsored ads to the UK in September following there inclusion on the app in America
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  Virtual Reality, live videos, and 360-degree videos reigned all video content on social media site like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. There was a crackdown on fake news throughout social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter