social media

By stepneym

  • CBBS

    Ward Christensen and Randy Suess, two computer fans, invented the CBBS system to inform their friends about meetings, make announcements and share information

  • Mosaic launches

    Several students from the University of Illinois developed Mosaic, which was presented as the first browser adapted to the general public.

  • GeoCities launches

    Launch of GeoCities, a service that allows users to create their own web pages

  • The Web has one million websites

  • GeoCities gets one million users

  • AOL launches

    AOL Instant Messenger allows Internet chat.

  • Blogging begins

  • Google launches

    Google launches

  • GeoCities goes public

  • Friends Reunited

    Friends Reunited, the first social network to become popular among Internet users, was founded in the UK to find old school mates.
  • Yahoo!

    Yahoo!

    Yahoo! buys GeoCities for 3.57 billion dollars.

  • The Blogger platform launches.

  • 70 million computers are connected to the Internet.

  • Friendster launches

    Friendster launches. The social network reaches 3 million users in just three months.

  • AOL has already reached 34 million users.

  • MySpace is launched

    MySpace is launched

  • Google buys the Blogger platform.

  • Second Life launches.

  • LinkedIn launches social network for professionals

  • Facebook launches

    Facebook launches

    Facebook is born. An unknown investor offers Mark Zuckerberg $10 million to buy the famous social network. Facebook founder declines the offer.

  • Digg launches.

  • youtube is launched

    youtube is launched

  • Twitter is launched

    Twitter is launched

  • apple introduces iphone

    apple introduces iphone

  • Tumblr launches

    Tumblr launches

  • Apple introduces ipad

    Apple introduces ipad

  • pinterest launches

    pinterest launches

  • today