Timeline: History of social media

Jan 1, 1969

First commercial internet connection in usa

Jan 1, 1971

worlds first e-mail

Jan 1, 1992

CERN(Swiss research organisation)

Apr 30, 1994

Yahoo! formed as database/ search engine for www.

Apr 30, 1998

Google founded, quickly takes over as most popular search egine

Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software. Most of its profits are derived from AdWords,an online advertising service that places advertising near the list of search results.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google

Apr 30, 1999

Friends reunited-first online social media-started in UK

Apr 30, 2001

Wikipedia formed

Apr 30, 2002

Friendster went online and achieved 3 million users in 3 months

Apr 30, 2003

Myspace launched, ITunes launched

Apr 30, 2004

Facebook and Flickr launched

facebook is a social media site made by Mark Zuckerberg while he was in his univercity bedroom. He initially limited the website's membership to Harvard students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook

Apr 30, 2006

Twitter launched

Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets".
Registered users can read and post tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS, or mobile device app Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco and has more than 25 offices around the world.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

Apr 30, 2008