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First ever Email sent out
According to http://openmap.bbn.com, the first ever Email was sent out by Ray Tomlinson, a US programmer in 1971 on the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. Most likely the first message was QWERTYUIOP or something similar to that. -
AOL founded
AOL was founded in 1983 as Control Video Corporation and by 1991, AOL for DOS launched, -
First webcam
According to wikipedia, the webcam was first developed in 1991, and was pointed at the Trojan Room coffee pot in the Cambridge University Computer Science Department. -
World Wide Web available to online users.
According to bbc, Tim Berners-Lee posted a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup on August 6, 1991. The same day the World Wide Web was pubically available to use on the internet. -
First ever text message
SMS messaging was used for the first time on 3 December 1992, when Neil Papworth, a 22-year-old test engineer for Sema Group in the UK used a personal computer to send the text message "Merry Christmas" via the Vodafone network to the phone of Richard Jarvis. -
Pioneer Blogger
Justin Hall is credited with being the first internet user to regularly blog on a site called links.net in 1994. The term blog wasn't in existence, so it was more of an online diary at that point. The term Blog or weblog wss created by Jorn Barger in December, 1997, -
Classmates.com Founded
Classmates.com, created by Randy Conrads is one of the first successful social networking sites to hit the web. -
Ebay Founded
Ebay launched on September 3, 1995 and according to the guardian.co.uk the first item to change hands at auction was a broken laser pointer offered by Omidyar who is the French- Iranian programmer who helped launch ebay. The pointer was sold for $14.83. -
AOL instant messenger
This innovative program allows users to commnicate real time. It was the modern day innovator of realtime digital communication. -
The launch of Google
Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The company's mission statement as seen on their "about" page is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." -
Myspace created
Myspace was launched by Chris DeWolfe Tom Anderson in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. According to newscorp.com it was sold to them in July 2005 for $580 million. -
Facebook created
According to wsj.com, as of September 2012, Facebook has over one billion active users. Facebook continues to be one of the most popular social networking sites in the world and can be looked at as a site that changed social media forever. -
YouTube launch
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees Jawed Karim, Steve Chen and Chad Hurley in February 2005. The first YouTube video was entitled Me at the zoo, and shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo according to http://www.telegraph.co.uk.The video was entitled "Me at the zoo" and uploaded on April 23, 2005. It can still be viewed on YouTube.com. -
Twitter Launches
According to wikipedia, Twitter was created in March 2006 by Twitter was created in March, 2006 by Jack Dorsey and by July, the social networking site was launched. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 500 million registered users as of 2012, generating over 340 million tweets daily and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day. -
Instagram launch
According to pcworld.com, Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger and launched in October 2010. The service rapidly gained popularity, with over 100 million registered users (and around 90 million monthly active users) as of January 2013. -
Is Social Media sabotaging real communication?
"Social media sabotaging communication" Article reports that 7% of communication is verbal or written communicaion which means that 93% of communication is non verbal.
