History of Social Media By facebooker_1430400097 Jan 22, 1971 First e-mail delivered Jan 22, 1993 CERN donates www. technology Jan 27, 1993 First AIM message Sent by Ted Leonsis to his wife Jan 22, 1997 1,000,000 Websites Jan 22, 1998 Google! Jan 27, 1999 Napster Peer to peer file sharing Jan 27, 1999 Livejournal Jan 22, 2001 Wikipedia Jan 27, 2002 Friendster Jan 22, 2003 Linkedin Jul 1, 2003 Myspace Jan 22, 2004 Facebook Jan 27, 2004 Flickr Jan 22, 2005 Youtube Jan 27, 2006 Twitter Jan 22, 2007 Tumblr Jan 22, 2007 First iPhone Jan 27, 2007 Twitter gains popularity at 2007 SXSW 20-60k tweets a day during the musical conference. A first for twitter Jan 22, 2010 Instagram Mar 22, 2010 Pinterest Jan 27, 2011 Google+ Jan 22, 2012 KONY Jan 22, 2012 Facebook buys Instagram Jul 22, 2012 Gangam Style Jan 22, 2014 Snapchat live stories