History of Social Media

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  • The "Super Computers"

    Technology began to change very rapidly in the 20th Century. After the first super computers were created in the 1940s, scientists and engineers began to develop ways to create networks between those computers, and this would later lead to the birth of the Internet http://smallbiztrends.com/2013/05/the-complete-history-of-social-media-infographic.html

  • Ted Nelsons Xanadu project

    Ted Nelson envisaged with Xanadu a huge library of all the worlds' information. In order to click on hyperlinks, as they were called, Douglas Engelbart invented the mouse, which was to later become a very important part of personal computers. So the idea of clicking on a word or a picture to take you somewhere else was a basic foundation of the web. http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/web.html

  • URL

    Another important building block was the URL or Uniform Resource Locator. This allowed you a further option to find your way around by naming a site. Every site on the worldwide web has a unique URL. http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/web.html

  • Online Bulletin Board

    The very first web browsers were distributed using Usenet, the earliest online bulletin board of the time. Usenet was created by Jim Ellis & Tom Truscott, where users posted news, articles and funny posts. http://1stwebdesigner.com/history-of-social-networking/

  • Home Computers

    By the 1980s, 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. http://smallbiztrends.com/2013/05/the-complete-history-of-social-media-infographic.html

  • Genie by General Electric

    Genie was an early online service created by a General Electric subsidiary (GEIS) in 1985. It ran through 1999 and was one of the earliest services available. It was a text-based service, and considered the first viable commercial competition to CompuServe. http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/10/the-history-and-evolution-of-social-media/

  • The Internet worm leads to World Wide Web

    A virus called the Internet Worm temporarily shuts down about 10% of the world's Internet servers. Tim Berners-Lee of CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics) develops a new technique for distributing information on the Internet. He calls it the World Wide Web. The Web is based on hypertext, which permits the user to connect from one document to another at different sites on the Internet via hyperlinks http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0193167.html

  • Fast fwd. 2002

    Friendster was really the first modern, general social network. Founded in 2002, Friendster is still a very active social network, with over 90 million registered users and 60+ million unique visitors each month. http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/10/the-history-and-evolution-of-social-media/

  • Social media on a new level

    MySpace was founded in 2003 and by 2006 had grown to be the most popular social network in the world.
    In 2008 Facebook became the most popular social networking site, surpassing MySpace, and continues to grow. http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/10/the-history-and-evolution-of-social-media/

  • Social Media Today

    Today, social networking websites allow users to make profiles, upload photos and videos, and interact with friends and family. Social networking is a tool to join groups, learn about latest news and events, play games, chat and to share music and video. http://1stwebdesigner.com/history-of-social-networking/

  • In the Future

    We can only speculate about what the future of social networking may look in the next decade or even 100 years from now, but it seems clear that it will exist in some form for as long as humans are alive. http://smallbiztrends.com/2013/05/the-complete-history-of-social-media-infographic.html

  • In the Future pt.2

    Although it is impossible to know what the future of social media holds, it is clear that it will continue. With new and exciting technologies just around the corner, social media will be interesting to see in the coming decades. http://historycooperative.org/the-history-of-social-media