Social Networking Timeline

  • Bulletin Board System

    A Bulletin Board System is a computer system running software that allows unsers to connect using a terminal program.Ward Christensen created bbs
  • Welcome to GEnie

    Welcome to GEnie is an educational mircocontroller system.
    (NO DATE ONLY YEAR). does not say who created the GEnie.
  • Classmates.com

    Classmates.com is a social networking service created in 1995 by Randy Conrads who founded Classmates Online, Inc. Randy Conrads created classmtes.com
  • Craigslist

    Craigslist is a classified advertisements website with sections devoted to jobs, housing, personals, for sale, items wanted, services, community, gigs, résumés, and discussion forums.
    NO DATE ONLY YEAR!!! Craig Newmark was the founder of craigslist.
  • ICQ

    icq is one app with all the functions you need to keep in touch with friends. you can make calls and text messeges for free. Ayelet Noff created ICQ.
  • AsianAvenue.com

    Asian Avenue is a social networking website targeted to the Asian American community. (DATE IS REAL).
  • sixdegrees

    SixDegrees is a monthly published free English language magazine in Finland. It focuses on multicultural events, people, matters and phenomena. (NO DATE JUST YEAR).
  • Open Diary

    Open Diary (often abbreviated as "OD") is an online diary community, an early example of social networking software. It was founded on October 20, 1998 by Bruce Ableson and Susan Ableson, known on the Open Diary website by the title of his diary, The DiaryMaster. ...
  • BlackPlanet.com

    BlackPlanet is an African-American community website, or Social Network Site (SNS), and started as a place for matchmaking and job postings but also has forums for discussion on political and social issues.BlackPlanet was created by Omar Wasow.
    (NO DATE ONLY YEAR)
  • Pandora

    Pandora Internet Radio is an automated music recommendation service and "custodian" of the Music Genome Project. The service, operated by Pandora Media, Inc., is only available in the United States, Australia and New Zealand. The service plays musical selections of a certain genre based on the user's artist selection. Tim Westergren,Will Glaser and
    Jon Kraft invented pandora
  • Party Flock

    Partyflock is a Dutch virtual community for people interested in house music and other electronic dance music. Since 2001, Partyflock has evolved into the biggest online community for the dance scene in the Netherlands, with over 400 thousand members and 500 million page views a month.This was invented by Thomas van Gulick.
  • Friendster

    Friendster is a social gaming site that is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was previously known as a social networking website. The website was also used for discovering new events, bands, and hobbies.
  • mySpace

    Myspace is a social networking service with a strong music emphasis owned by Specific Media LLC and pop music singer and actor Justin Timberlake.
  • Facebook

    Facebook is a social networking site created by Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes.
  • Youtube

    For youtube you basically upload a video of (someone or something) to the video-sharing website YouTube. This website was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim.
  • Twitter

    Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables users to send and read "tweets", which are text messages limited to 140 characters. Registered users can read and post tweets but unregistered users can only read them. Twitter was created by Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, and Biz Stone
  • friendfeed

    FriendFeed is a real-time feed aggregator that consolidates the updates from social media and social networking websites, social bookmarking websites, blogs and micro-blogging updates. Paul Buchheit, Jim Norris, and Bret Taylor
  • yammer

    Yammer is a private social network that helps you and your company stay on top of it all. Get connected to the right people, share information across teams and organize around projects so you can go further – faster. David Sacks created it.
  • Vevo

    Vevo is a joint venture music video website owned and operated by Abu Dhabi Media, Google, Sony Music Entertainment, and Universal Music Group.
  • Instagram

    Instagram is an online photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, apply digital filters to them, and share them on a variety of social networking services, such as Facebook and twitter.
  • Apple

    is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers. created by steve jobs.
  • GetLunched.com

    GetLunched.com is leading the way in the new trend of location based networking. The new 'social networking site' allows people to search and meet with people in their local area for a value exchange over lunch.Rachel Elnaugh is the entrepreneur of GetLunched.com
  • Ask.fm

    Ask.fm is a Latvia-based social networking website where users can ask other users questions, with the option of anonymity. Formspring founded ask.fm