Internet, Web and Social Media History

  • Vine

    Vine

    Where homemade or viral videos are shared released in 2013 and then later discontinued supporting the mobile app in 2016
  • Facebook Alliance

    Facebook Alliance

    Facebook announces its alliance with the National Association of Attorneys General to provide information for teenagers and parents to manage socail networking profiles.
  • Hangouts by Google

    Hangouts by Google

    Google came out with an instant messaging, video/voice calling app.
  • Snapchat

    Snapchat

    Snapchat, the picture and video sharing platform that deletes messages after viewing, became available for iOS in 2013
  • Google Hummingbird

    Google Hummingbird

    Google came out with a significant algorithm that changed Google Searches called Hummingbird.
  • Montevideo Statement

    This described the future of internet cooperation
  • NetMundial Initiative

    NetMundial Initiative

    A new platform created for internet governance issues, which only lasted 18 months.
  • Pinterest Ads

    Pinterest Ads

    Pinterest launches buyable pins for advertisements and in app purchases.
  • Periscope

    Periscope

    A video streaming app which was acquired by Twitter before its release
  • Discord (software)

    Discord (software)

    Discord is a freeware voice over internet protocol for gaming communities that is for text and audio communication between users.
  • Beme

    Beme

    Beme was a video sharing platform that lasted for two years as an app and now is a news channel on YouTube owned by CNN.
  • Internet Human Right

    Internet Human Right

    The United Nations Human Rights Council released a non-binding resolution making intentional disruption of internet access by government condemned.
  • ICANN

    ICANN

    Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which is a nonprofit organization that coordinated the maintenance databases that were responsible for namespaces of the internet. Their contract with the U.S. Dept. of Commerce ended in 2016.
  • Yahoo

    Yahoo

    Yahoo, the email platform, will only support Yahoo Messenger on iOS, Android, and web clients.
  • IANA

    IANA

    Internet Assigned Numbers Authority oversight is given to the global Internet community
  • Day of Action

    Day of Action

    The Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality was an event of various organisations and individuals advocate for net neutrality in the United States.
  • Net Neutrality

    Net Neutrality

    The FCC removed all net neutrality laws