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The two computers were sitting right next to each other. The email sent read "QWERTYUIOP".
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Bulletin Board Systems exchanged data over phone lines with users.
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The first copies of early web browsers are sent out using Usenet. This is the birthplace of trolling and flame wars.
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Stories of child molesters using social media sites to engage with children began in the early 1990s. http://unh.edu/ccrc/internet-crimes/safety_ed.html
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Geocities is one of the first ever social media sites. This site allowed users to create their own websites based on one of six cities.
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Theglobe.com was a site users to personalize their online experience by publishing their own content and socializing with others that had the same interests as them.
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AOL was a social media site that made instant messaging popular.
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Sixdegrees.com is where profile creation and a friend list was introduced.
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Friendster had a user-base of 3 million in the first 3 months.
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Myspace is created as a copycat of Friendster. It becomes more popular than Friendster.
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Facebook is created for college students to connect at Harvard University.
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Twitter quickly became popular. In 2010 users tweeted the Japan vs. Denmark World Cup with 3,283 tweets per second.
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After her neighbors created a fake Myspace account in order to harass her, 13 year old Tina Meier committed suicide. https://onlinesense.org/how-much-online-sense-do-you-have/
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Facebook overtakes Myspace as the most used social networking site.
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Instagram, owned by Facebook, is launched as a photo and video sharing site.
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The U.S. Department of Education looked at laws and policies of cyberbullying in many states and created a framework for how to address cyberbullying in schools.
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Snapchat, a site that allows users to send pictures for only a brief time, is created and launched.
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TikTok is a Chinese made social media site that allows users to create short dance, comedy, singing, lip-sync, or talent videos.
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