Social Media Evolution

Usenet 1979

Period: Dec 24, 1979 to Dec 25, 1980

Psts news to newsgroups
http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/the-evolution-of-social-media-infographic/620911

Compuserve 1980

Period: Dec 24, 1980 to Dec 25, 1984

First chat Introduced

1984 Prodigy Communications Corporations

Period: Dec 24, 1984 to Dec 25, 1988

Pioneered online portals and online news
http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/social-media-evolution-what-does-the-future-of-social-marketing-look-like-with-brian-solis/

1988 Introduction to Internet Relay Chat

Period: Dec 24, 1988 to Dec 25, 1996

File sharing, link sharing & keeping in touch

1996 Introduction to ICQ

Period: Dec 24, 1996 to Dec 25, 1997

Multiuser messaging, multiuser games, made emoticons & abbreviations such as"LOL" & "BRB" vecame famous
http://www.infinitdatum.com/social-media-evolution/

1997 Six Degrees

Period: Dec 24, 1997 to Dec 25, 1999

Glimpses of first social media resembling that of todays feachers like create profile and add friends.

1999 Live Journal

Period: Dec 24, 1999 to Dec 25, 2001

First to introduce dynamic content on the blogs and forum, create groups and interact
https://www.sprinklr.com/the-way/evolution-social-media-marketing/

2001 Wikepedia

Period: Dec 24, 2001 to Dec 25, 2002

The online free encyclopedia was launched

2002 Friendster

Period: Dec 24, 2002 to Dec 25, 2003

Operated by alowing people to meet new people and increase their network.
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/10/the-history-and-evolution-of-social-media/

2003 MySpace

Period: Dec 24, 2003 to Dec 25, 2004

Private messaging, public comments posted to a users profile, bulletins sent to friends.

2004 The Facebook

Period: Dec 24, 2004 to Dec 25, 2004

Opened only for the Harvard University Students
http://historycooperative.org/the-history-of-social-media/

2004 Flickr

Period: Dec 24, 2004 to Dec 25, 2005

Photo sharing platform

2005 YouTube

Period: Dec 24, 2005 to Dec 25, 2006

First organized video streaming & veideo sharing platform
https://blog.bufferapp.com/history-of-social-media

2006 Facebook

Period: Dec 24, 2006 to Dec 25, 2006

Best performing media paltform till date with 1.44 billion active users.

2006 Twitter

Period: Dec 24, 2006 to Dec 25, 2007

A microblogging platform with a question and answer format.
http://smallbiztrends.com/2013/05/the-complete-history-of-social-media-infographic.html

2007 Tumblr

Period: Dec 24, 2007 to Dec 25, 2009

Live streaming and microblogging platform

2009 WhatsApp

Period: Dec 24, 2009 to Dec 25, 2012

ios, android and windows based application for personal and group chats.
http://thejsms.org/index.php/TSMRI/article/view/89

2012 Tinder

Period: Dec 24, 2012 to Dec 25, 2013

A social discovery application for ios and android devices

2013 Vine

Period: Dec 24, 2013 to Dec 25, 2014

A multiple platform video sharing social application
ww.pepperitmarketing.com/facebook/evolution-social-media

2014 Pheed

Period: Dec 24, 2013 to Dec 25, 2014

A social media platform with livebroadcast option