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PLATO Sytem
offers early forms of social media with notes, Platos messges-forum application, term talk. -
Discrete Cosine Transform
Become the most widely used date compression algorithm on social media, enabling the practical transmission and streaming of digital media. -
Talkomatic
Multi-user chat room application -
Bulletin Board System
emerges as one of the earliest known forms of social media and remains popular and under development until late 1980 -
FidoNet
forms of as a BBS to exchange emails in North America and later internationally -
Classmates
originally launched as a list of school affiliations is launched in December and current classmates find and contact each other. -
Lunarstorm
the first worlds media on the internet. -
Bolt
first networking and video website -
First Social Media Site
Sixdegrees.com was the first site. You could set up a profile page, create connections and send messages. -
Aol Mail
Instant messenger released. -
Open Diary
First social blogging network, inventing the reader comment and friends only content. -
Yahoo!
another popular instant messaging services -
MySpace
Social networking site for musicians and bands. -
Gaining Traction
In 2003 mark Zuckerberg launched face mash, registering its one millionth user that same year. -
Facebook
Most popular social networking service to date -
Twitter
Thread of messages and sometimes pictures with the text. -
Hashtag
a symbol used to promote political organizers and average citizens mobilize and create awareness. -
Grinder
A dating app, geared towards gay and bisexual men -
Instagram
a photo/video sharing and social media service -
Pinterst Pinning
You can save pins and pin things, place where people can go to get inspired and see pictures -
Snapchat
Photo/video sharing app -
Facebook Goes Public
This valued the company at $104 billion, the largest valuation to date for a newly listed public company -
Year of the Selfie
front facing camera picture and Ellen Degeneres went viral -
Yahoo Discontinues
Yahoo discontinues its services for windows, Mac, linux, and solaris clients -
Instagram Launches Stories
Stories last for 24 hours and can be a pictures with a short text or a short video. -
Tik-Tok
A short video sharing and social media service -
Instagram Launches IGTV
This becomes a huge hit for influencers and they can now promote through instagram and that can become a job.