Social Media Timeline By knh34 Jan 22, 1993 First Graphical Browser Jan 22, 1994 White House website launched www.whitehouse.gov Jan 22, 1994 Yahoo opened as major internet search engine Jan 1, 1995 Classmates.com launched A way to keep up with old high school buddies Jan 22, 1997 AOL instant messenge launched Jan 22, 1998 Google opened May 1, 2001 Wikipedia started Mar 22, 2002 Friendster first soial networking website Jan 22, 2003 Apple launched iTunes May 1, 2003 LinkedIn launched Jan 1, 2004 Myspace launched Jan 22, 2004 Facebook started Feb 1, 2005 Youtube launched Dec 1, 2005 "Lazy Sunday" went viral SNL short video with Andy Samberg Jan 22, 2006 92 million websites were available Jan 22, 2006 Twitter launched Jan 1, 2007 CNN partnerted with Youtube to create "Youtube Debates" computer users were allowed to upload questions for candidates Jan 27, 2007 Justin Bieber posts first video Jul 29, 2007 iPhone released Apr 27, 2008 Facebook overtakes Myspace traffic Oct 7, 2008 App store opens via iTunes Nov 5, 2008 First political campaign for twitter with Barack Obama Jun 25, 2009 Twitter server crashed after users tweet 100,000 tweets per hour (Michael Jacksons death) Jan 22, 2010 Instagram launched Feb 27, 2010 Rumors suggest that Kim K earns $10,000 per endorsement tweet Jul 6, 2010 Lady Gaga becomes first person to have 10 million friends on facebook Oct 26, 2010 Lady Gaga becomes first person to receive one billion views on YouTube Jan 1, 2011 Google+ launched