Social Network Timeline

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    Before the dawn

  • BBS/CBBS

    By Ward Christensen
    The digital equivalent of a physical bulletin board – a location where users could post messages for others to read.
  • AOL

    By Bill von Meister A web service provider
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    The dawning

  • Google

    By Larry Page and Sergey Brin A massive search engine used today.
  • Wikipedia

    By Jimmy Domal Wales The web's largest online editable encyclopedia.
  • Friendster

    By Jonathan Abrams A social networking website.
  • MySpace

    By Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolf Another social networking site
  • Facebook

    By Mark Zuckerburg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin and Chris Hughes A massive social networking
  • YouTube

    By Chad Hurtley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim A massive video veiwing website.
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    After the dawn