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Created by Doug Brown and David Woolley, this became the first online chat room where you can communicate with just a small group of people.
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With the popularity of these two operating systems, social media would then be able to be easily accessed and would continue to be used today.
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BBS and IRC became very popular chat rooms, software databases, and also places where you can interact through games with someone else. IRC are still very popular today.
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AOL was a popular chat room in the 1990s and even into the 2000s. It grew fast and became the most popular chat system for years until other platforms became to take over.
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Said to be the first ever social media site, Six Degree started off huge with over a million users but then slowly declined and was bought in 2000 by YouthStream Media
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The famous music file downloading site Napster was officially shut down after allowing illegally downloads of thousands of music and video files ever since their platform began.
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One of the most popular social media sites ever. Sharing thoughts, videos, music, and also ranking your top 8 friends. It brought celebs and also launched many music careers.
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With a slow beginning, Facebook became the most popular social media site known to date. Adding 100 million users in just 5 years, facebook doesn't seem to be going anywhere soon.
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Becoming the most popular video sharing site of all time, YouTube has brought careers of Justin Bieber and many famous bloggers over the past 13 years.
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The Photo and now video sharing social media site launched and was an instant favorite and is continuing to grow.
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Twitter quickly became one of the most popular social media sites and has been growing ever since. Specializing in microblogging with only 140 Characters per message.
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like instagram, Snapchat is also a photo sharing and social media website, but its known to be quicker, and a faster way of interacting with others and is also becoming a very popular source for news as well.