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The first ever multiple person online chat room is developed by Dave Wooley in 1973
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Bulletin Board System or BBS becomes popular as one of the earliest successful forms of social media
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Swedish Social networking application is launched and describe as the first social media on the internet
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Considered one of the first real social media sites allowing profile pages connections and messaging.
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An instant messaging hit launches
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One of the first online dating sites for friends of friends to get together and message one another.
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Rival to Friendster that allowed users the ability to customize their public profiles and create their own content on said profiles.
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The first VoIP video/calling service launches
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The first business oriented social networking program to launch
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The most popular social networking service to exist, little needed introduction.
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One of the worlds first video sharing software developed.
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The first social media site to offer a premium subscription service a industry standard practice now.
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Still one of the most popular social media and news site to date launches.
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Immensely popular microblogging social networking website launches
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The first video livestreaming website available to the public.
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Media behemoth begins as a photo and video sharing social networking app
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Popular messaging and photo/video sharing app launches
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Facebook stock launches publicly valuing the company at 104 billion dollars the largest valuation of a newly public company ever.
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One of the first sites to prioritize short form content launches under Twitter.
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Lipsyncing social media site launches providing framework for later sites
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One of the first social media titans fall to more powerful sites in the industry.
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Yahoo! ends services on many platforms only allowing for Android IOS and Web clients
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Snapchat begins trading on the stock exchange giving the company a valuation of 33 Billion.
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Tiktok launches gaining instant popular as a short from content sharing site.
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Musically shuts down and migrating users to social media giant Tiktok
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Twitter is acquired by businessman Elon Musk