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The Advanced Research Projects Agency is founded, which would become the cradle of connectivity.
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Packet Switching is developed which would later become one of the internets building blocks
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The Early concept of building a network where one terminal connects to all other terminals begins to develop.
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IMP's are founded and given an important role. As more focus is drawn to creating more IMP's, the faster the development of what would be known as the early internet.
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The BBN team delievered their prototype I.M.P to U.C.L.A.
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Leonard Klienrock talks to an SRI host to host. This is considered to be the first breath of the internet.
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Arpanent system has its coming out party at the I.C.C.C. meeting at the Washingotn Hiltoin.
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Founded by Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf as a way of interconnecting networks in a faster more effective way.
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Apple Inc. develops that Apple 2, one of the first personal computers which would later lead to multiple computer designers such as IBM.
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Hired by Control Video to develop what would later become email services. A large stepping stone for personal computers.
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IRC was developed in 1988 and used for file and link sharing - generally to keep in touch.
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Six degrees was the first modern social network; it was the first site to allow users to create a profiule and to become friends and connect with others online.
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Hence the word "Journal" in the name, it allowed users to share, edit, and create blogs. The site encouraged users to follow one another and create groups to interact.
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Wkipedia is the world's largest online refernce site. It allows users to create and edit entries into the online encyclopedia.
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Friendster was the very first modern, general social network. It is still very popular today.
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LinkedIn allows users to create professional connections as well as create a professional profile for others to see.
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MySpace was founded in 2003, but by 2006 had become the most popular social media site in the world. It was unique because it allowed users to have full customization of their profile.
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Care2 is the largest online community of people making a difference in healthy and green living, human rights, and animal welfare.
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TheFacebook launched in 2004. Facebook Platform was key to site’s success. The open API made it possible for third-party developers to create applications that work within Facebook itself.
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Bebo website launched in 2005. The website was developed and launched during the days of MySpace and Hi5 when social networking was first taking root in the Internet community.
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YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, Allowed users to upload their own video content.
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Twitter an online social networking service that allows users to send and read short 140-character messages also known as "tweets". Twitter is one of the most popular social networks used today but it began as an micro-blogging platform created by programmers who worked at the podcasting company Odeo Inc. in San Francisco, California.
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Foursquare provides recommendations of the places to go around a user's current location.Foursquare featured a social networking layer that enabled a user to share their location with friends.
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Pinterest is basically a site that allows users to share photos and other digital content and "pin" it to their profile.
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Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010. The service rapidly gained popularity, with over 100 million active users as of April 2012. The service enabled its users to take pictures and video content, and share them either publicly or privately on the app, also through a variety of other social networking sites.
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Google Plus lets users create connections and interactions with your circles, personalized friend groups.
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Snapchat allows user to send ''snaps'' to friends, which are one to ten second pictures with captions.
