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dial up
CompuServe was the first major commercial Internet service provider for the public in the United States. Using a technology known then as dial-up, it dominated the field through the 1980s and remained a major player until the mid-1990s. -
Email
The first email was delivered. -
bulletin board system
Two Chicago computer hobbyists invented the bulletin board system (BBS) to inform friends of meetings, make announcements and share information through postings. It was the rudimentary beginning of a small virtual community. -
prodigy online serive
The Prodigy online service was introduced. Later, it grew to become the second-largest online service provider in 1990, with 465,000 subscribers compared with CompuServe's 600,000. In 1994, Prodigy pioneered sales of dial-up connections to the World Wide Web and hosting services for Web publishers. Subsequently, it was resold repeatedly and now is part of AT&T. -
the dawning
Beverly Hills Internet (BHI) started Geocities, which allowed users to create their own websites modeled after types of urban areas. GeoCities would cross the one million member mark by 1997. There were 38 million user Web pages on GeoCities before it was shut down for United States users in 2009. Yahoo, which opened as a major Internet search engine and index in 1994, owns GeoCities today and offers it only as a web hosting service for Japan. -
growth
The Web had one million sites. Blogging begins. SixDegrees.com lets users create profiles and list friends. AOL Instant Messenger lets users chat. Blackboard is founded as an online course management system for educators and learner -
google
Google opens as a major Internet search engine and index. -
wikipedia
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia and world's largest wiki, was started. -
new networking
MySpace. another social networking website, was launched as a clone of Friendster. Linden Lab opened the virtual world Second Life on the Internet. LinkedIn was started as a business-oriented social networking site for professionals. There were more than 3 billion Web pages. Apple introduced the online music service iTunes. -
Facebook etc..
Facebook, another social networking website, was started for students at Harvard College. It was referred to at the time as a college version of Friendster. MySpace surpassed Friendster in page views. Podcasting began on the Internet. Flickr image hosting website opened. Digg was founded as a social news website where people shared stories found across the Internet -
after the dawn
Bebo, an acronym for Blog Early, Blog Often, was started as another social networking website. News Corporation, a global media company founded by Rupert Murdoch, with holdings in film, television, cable, magazines, newspapers and book publishing, purchased MySpace. Facebook launched a version for high school students. Friends Reunited, now with 15 million members, was sold to the British television company ITV. YouTube began storing and retrieving videos. There were more than 8 billio -
myspace, twitter, facebook, google
MySpace was the most popular social networking site in the U.S. However, based on monthly unique visitors, Facebook would take away that lead later, in 2008. Twitter was launched as a social networking and microblogging site, enabling members to send and receive 140-character messages called tweets. Facebook membership was expanded and opened to anyone over age 13. Google had indexed more than 25 billion web pages, 400 million queries per day, 1.3 billion images, and more than a billion Us -
purchasing new sites
Facebook surpassed MySpace in the total number of monthly unique visitors. Meanwhile, Facebook tried unsuccessfully to buy Twitter. Bebo was purchased by AOL. Later, AOL would re-sell the relatively-unsuccessful social media site. -
more on facebook
Facebook ranked as the most-used social network worldwide with more than 200 million. The site's traffic was twice that of MySpace. -
popularity
Facebook's rapid growth moved it above 400 million users, while MySpace users declined to 57 million users, down from a peak of about 75 million. -
social media
Social media were accessible from virtually anywhere and had become an integral part of our daily lives with more than 550 million people on Facebook, 65 million tweets sent through Twitter each day, and 2 billion video views every day on YouTube. LinkedIn has 90 million professional users. -
effecting almost every individual
Ever more people are connecting to the Internet for longer periods of time. Some 2 billion people around the world use the Internet and social media, while 213 million Americans use the Internet via computers while 52 million use the Web via smartphone and 55 million use it via tablets. People also connect to the Internet via handheld music players, game consoles, Internet-enabled TVs and e-readers. It is estimated Internet users would double by 2015 to a global total of some four billion user -
statistics
YouTube topped one billion monthly users with 4 billion views per day, and launched paid channels to provide content creators with a means of earning revenue. Facebook user total climbed to 1.11 billion. Twitter had 500 million registered users, with more than 200 million active. Apple's customers have downloaded over 50 billion apps and the company again improved iTunes, even as iPads were revolutionizing social games. Yahoo purchased Tumblr blogging-social media network, with 170 milli -
access
85 percent of the 7.1 billion people in the world have access to the Internet
