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CompuServe was the first major commercial Internet service provider for the public in the United States. Using a technology known then as dial-up, it dominated the field through the 1980s and remained a major player until the mid-1990s.
(source-http://www2.uncp.edu/)
(Date I found this info-23/03/14)
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The first email transmission was sent in 1971. Ray Tomlinson, the engineer behind ARPANET's email system and the man who came up with using the @ sign for email, said that the first email he sent was something insignificant. The actual contents of the first email were "entirely forgettable" and most likely something akin to "QWERTYUIOP"
(source- http://www.omg-facts.com/)
(Date I found this info-23/03/140
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Two Chicago computer hobbyists invented the bulletin board system (BBS) to inform friends of meetings, make announcements and share information through postings. It was the rudimentary beginning of a small virtual community. Trolling and flame wars began.
(source-http://www2.uncp.edu/)
(Date I found this info-23/03/14)
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Students at NCSA (National Centre for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) displayed the first graphical browser, Mosaic, and Web pages as we know them today were born. More than 200 Web servers were online.
(source-http://www2.uncp.edu/)
(Date I found this info-23/03/14)
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The Web had one million sites. Blogging begins. SixDegrees.com lets users create profiles and list friends. AOL Instant Messenger lets users chat. Blackboard is founded as an online course management system for educators and learners.
(source-http://www2.uncp.edu/)
(Date I found this info-23/03/14)
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Mark Zuckerburg launched "The Facebook", as it was originally; the name taken from the sheets of paper distributed to freshmen, profiling students and staff. Within 24 hours, 1,200 Harvard students signed up, and after one month, over half of the ungraduate population had a profile.
(Source-The Guardian)
(Date I found this info-23/03/14)
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Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass and by July 2006, the site was launched. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with 500 million registered users in 2012, who posted 340 million tweets per day. Twitter is now one of the ten most-visited websites, and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet.
(Source-Wikipedia)
(Date I found this info- 23/03/14)
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Instagram was launched in 2010, the number of daily users is 75million (last checked-12/12/13). The total number of photos shared is 16 billion (last checked on 6/3/14).
(source-http://expandedramblings.com/)
(Date I found this info-23/03/14)
(Author-Craig Smith) -
In early 2012 it showed that:
58% Any social network
56% Facebook
14% Linkedin
11% Twitter
9% Google+
(Source-www.Statisticbrain.com)
(Date I found this info-23/03/14)
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According to Pew Research Centre, 73% of U.S. adults use social networks. The number of people on multiple networks is now at 42%. Facebook is the world’s largest social network with 1.19B users (71% of U.S. adults are on Facebook).
(source-http://www.socialnetworkingwatch.com/)
(Date found-23/03/14)
(Author-Ingrid Lunden) -
The most popular Social media sites are:
1) Facebook
2) Twitter
3) Linkedin
4) Pinterest
5) Google plus+
6) Tumblr
7)Instagram
8)VK
9)Flikr
10) MySpace
11)Tagged
12)Ask.Fm
13) Meet up
14) Meetme
15)Classmates
