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Talkomatic is created by Dave Wooly and Douglas Brown at the University of Illinois. It was a multi-user chat room with limited features. -
Barry Appelman, Eric Bosco, and Jerry Harris created AOL instant messenger. -
Jerry Yang and David Filo established Yahoo! Messenger. -
Microsoft creates MSN Messenger to offer new features like video calling. -
Windows Messenger, the integrated version of MSN Messenger is out. -
Friendster is born; a place for gaming and social networking. it’s a brainchild of Jonathan Abrams. -
Reid Hoffman and some of his coworkers introduce LinkedIn. -
Thomas Anderson founds Myspace. -
Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis create Skype. -
Jake Lodwick and Zach Klein found Vimeo -
Mark Zuckerberg starts Facebook. -
Aaron Swartz introduces Reddit. -
Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim create Youtube -
Twitter is out. Jack Dorsey founds this platform. -
SoundCloud was established in Berlin in August 2007 by Swedish sound designer Alexander Ljung and Swedish electronic musician Eric Wahlforss -
Tumblr founded by David Karp in 2007 -
WhatsApp was launched in 2009 by 2 former Yahoo! developers -
Ben Silbermann establishes Pinterest. -
Kevin Systrom introduces Instagram; now one of the most popular photo-sharing platforms ever is launched. -
Evan Spiegel founds Snapchat. -
Google executive Bradley Horowitz introduces Google plus. -
Justin Kan introduces Twitch, a live-streaming platform for gamers. -
Alex Zhu and Luyu Yang invent a lip-syncing app called musical.ly. -
Discord is launched -
A platform for short video sharing called TikTok is out.