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CompuServe (Jeffrey M. Wilkins)
CompuServe was the first major commercial online service provider in the United States. It dominated the field during the 1980s and remained a major influence through the mid-1990s. -
UseNet (Tom Truscott, Jim Ellis)
UseNet allowed users to communicate through a virtual newsletter. -
Internet Relay Chat (Jarkko Oikarinen)
Internet Relay Chat is an application layer protocol that facilitates communication in the form of text. -
Six Degrees (Andrew Weinreich)
Six Degrees site launched the following year and combined popular features such as profiles, friends lists and school affiliations in one service. -
Blogging (Justin Hall)
In 1999 the first blogging site was created it was called Links.net. -
Myspace (Tom Anderson, Jon Hart, Chris DeWolfe)
Myspace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. -
LinkedIn (Reid Hoffman)
LinkedIn is a business- and employment-oriented social networking service that operates via websites and mobile apps -
OKCupid (Sam Yagan, Christian Rudder)
OKCupid is an American-based international operating online dating, friendship, and social networking website. -
Youtube (Jawed Karim, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley)
Youtube created an entirely new way for people to communicate and share with each other across great distances. -
Twitter (Jack Dorsey)
Twitter is an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages, "tweets", restricted to 140 characters. Registered users can post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them. -
Facebook (Mark Zuckerberg)
Facebook is an American for-profit corporation and an online social media and social networking service based in Menlo Park, California. -
Instagram (Kevin Systrom)
Instagram is a mobile, desktop, and Internet-based photo-sharing application, communicating with others and service that allows users to share pictures and videos either publicly or privately -
Snapchat (Evan Spiegel)
Snapchat is an image messaging and multimedia mobile application. -
