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Samuel Morse sent a telegram from DC to Baltimore
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Arpam wanted to connect universities on a proto-internet
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First Email Sent by Rea Tomlinson
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Eric Thomas developed the concept of an automated mailing list manager.
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Internet Relay Chat was an open protocol that allowed users with IRC clients relay text messaged in real-time over the internet
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The start of social sites
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Creativity and status blogs
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Friendster one of the first social media sites is created and launched by Peter chin, Jonathan abrams, and Dave lee
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Linkedin gave users a place to post their resumes and find jobs
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Gmail creates its own email services
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Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg
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Youtube become a platform where users could upload and share videos.
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Twitter was created and is unique because you can easily share your message in only 140 characters
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MySpace become the most popular network in the US in 2006
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Whatsapp app which is one of the only social media platforms without any ads.
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750 tweets on twitter per second. 65 million tweets a day are being sent out on Twitter
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Instagram, the only app which really competed with Facebook. Users can share upload and create photos.
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Snapchat. Now you can see the story in almost every social media platform. People love the idea of disappearing messages, photos, and videos after 24 hours.
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SELFIE. The craze of the selfie in 2013 in the same year oxford dictionary names selfie as the word of the year.
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Filters. From cat to dog filters, pictures became more creative with the use of filters.
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Tik-Tok was created. Lets users share music videos that are 3-15 seconds.
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The next generations of social media platforms will be based on artificial intelligence and machine learning.
