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Considered the first online chat room it was a crowd sourced online newspaper. -
This allows instant messaging between two individuals -
allowed posting messages for a large group of people to see all at once -
A grouped based messaging system that also allowed private messaging -
The internet becomes available to the public for the first time -
One of the oldest and earliest media sources still in use today -
Aol was a dial up internet provider and messaging service -
Coming from israel icq is a very early messaging board -
Sixdegree allowed for adding friends and contacts externally -
This is the first acquisition of a social media outlet by another company -
Yahoo was a very large early email service -
One of the first major social media outlets that shuts down services -
Myspace was wildly popular in the early 2000s -
Facebook is one of the largest social media companies to date -
Youtube is a platform dedicated to uploading videos rather than just messages -
Twitter is one of the most used social media outlets world wide -
Google buys youtube only one year after launching for $1.65 billion -
The first iphone is released which revolutionized smartphones -
One of the first social media outlets that lets you connect with people live through video on a large scale -
snapchat launches with a new take on sending images to each other, ones that go away after opening -
Twitch is the predecessor to justin.tv focused on gaming -
coming in at $104 billion it is the highest valuation of a new company stock ever -
A messaging platform focused on gaming and nerd culture -
A media app that only allows certain length videos to be sent, created by china and was under investigation for spying on us citizens -
This is one of the largest social media outlets to completely shut down services