History of Social Networks

By JuanGuerrero

  • The first E-mail

    The first E-mail
    The first e-mail was send between two computers that were at the same place. The person who did it was Ray Tomlinson.

  • The First Social Network

    The First Social Network
    The Well was the first Social network in the history. It is best known for its Internet forums, but also provides email, shell accounts, and web pages.

  • Geocities

    Geocities
    Geocities aimed to bring people together in the format of chatrooms, where they can share images,videos,etc.

  • AOL

    AOL
    AOL was the first company to provide instant messaging, so people can have real time chats

  • Friendster

    Friendster
    Friendster attract more than 3 million people in a month! Their aim was to create a save environment, while you pass time with others

  • MySpace

    MySpace
    With the launch of friendster, the social network popularity rise, so people create Myspace, a better version of friendster, were people can share music,news and videos

  • Facebook

    Facebook
    Mark Zuckerberg creates facebook in his room on college. Now, is the most used social network, with 400 million users

  • Twitter

    Twitter
    Twitter is an online social network and microblogging service that enables users to send posts up to 140 characters

  • Tumblr

    Tumblr
    Tumblr is a microblogging platform that allows users to post text,images,videos,quotes and audios to their tumblog