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Talkomatic was created at the University of Illinois, known as a multi-user chat room application.
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Bulletin Board System (BBS) emerges as one of the earliest known forms of social media, and remains popular and under development until the late 1990s.
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This platform was used to connect and be able to message anyone "instantly" from your home PC.
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Yahoo Messenger was another instant messaging service that let you reach people in different chatrooms.
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MySpace was founded by several employees from the Internet marketing firm eUniverse in August 2003. Myspace was known for bands' pages and customizable profiles.
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Skype application permitted voice calls from one desktop to another. This included video calls that let the users see one another in real time.
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Facebook was the first social media platform founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommate and fellow Harvard University student Eduardo Saverin.
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Youtube is a free to use service and is used to watch music videos, comedy shows, how to guides, recipes, hacks and more.
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Jack Dorsey introduced the idea of creating an SMS(short message service, texting for example) that would allow a user to communicate with a small group of people. This gave birth to the social media platform known as twitter.
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Pinterest is a social network that allows users to visually share, and discover new interests by posting images or videos to their own or others' boards.
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Instagram is a social media platform which was named referring to the fact that users were sending a type of instant telegram.
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Snapchat is an image and video messaging application.
