-
The most widely used system was invented in 1792 in France by Claude Chappe, and was popular in the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries
-
The world’s first “selfie” is taken by amateur chemist and photography enthusiast Robert Cornelius
-
The telephone is invented. Sadly, it is unable to take photographs or send text messages yet, rendering it almost completely useless
-
The world’s scientists begin developing ways for those supercomputers to communicate with each other. Their dream? To finally be able to publicly share photos of their lunch.
-
The first site in the history of social networks, a site that is still open today. This site focuses on the fact that anyone is only six steps away, social circles, from the person most distant from them and that we are all always connected. Although this website has been deemed to have failed commercially on its first launch, it laid the foundation for what we now know as social media.
-
Ryze.com was introduced in 2001 as a network to take advantage of users' professional connections. Interestingly, the founder of Ryze had a close relationship with the founders of LinkedIn, Tribe.com, and Friendster. These entrepreneurs maintained the philosophy of helping each other without competing with each other
-
The world’s headhunters and hiring agencies lick their chops in anticipation of how easy their jobs are about to become.
-
Myspace is founded, and the awesome power of the social network is slowly revealed to the world.
-
acebook goes live. The world has no idea what’s about to take place.
-
Digital camera sales increase exponentially
-
It was from this year that social networks were growing in the global market, with some networks taking over countries or regions but without having a global domain.
-
Among animal videos, music clips and spectacular falls (as if the site were a digital 'Impacto TV'), in mid-2006 one of the first vlogs appeared
-
Once the project started, they tried several names, some of which was "Status" (Stat.us), twitch (tic) due to the noise of the vibrator of the phones, but finally they came up with "Twitter", inspiration from Glass alluding to "Flickr". The final version was released on July 15, 2006, which according to Liam Well's words, its definition was "a short burst of inconsequential information"
-
What today we can consider as the most famous instant messaging application emerged in 2009, and was created by the Ukrainian Jan Koum. It was originally created with the utility of being an intelligent agenda -therefore it is linked with the contact book of our mobile terminal-, allowing the user to see what each person was doing at all times, in order to know whether or not I could start a conversation with him. Hence, its name: WhatsApp
-
Instagram hit the market, quickly positioning itself as the most photographic social network par excellence, with greater success than other options such as Flickr. Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and the peculiarity that it had in its beginnings is that it treated its images and photographs in a square way, in honor of the Kodak Instamatic
-
From then on, each year new social networks with different functionalities or aimed at different groups emerged. Pinterest, for example, a social network that collects - above all, inspiration - that allows users to store them on boards, was created in 2010 and, 9 months after its launch, it already had 10,000 users. The network has more than 300 million active users per month.
-
Google was the great failed attempt of the online giant: it emerged in 2011, it was a social network owned by Google, which reached 10 million users just two weeks after its launch. After 3 weeks of operation, it was already around 20 million. A network that made great efforts to challenge others such as Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Vimeo or Tumblr, but which - unfortunately - closed its doors in April of this year.
-
Snapchat is a messaging application for smartphones with multimedia support for image, video and filters for augmented reality photos
-
For its part, Tik Tok, which emerged at the end of 2016, -also known as Douyin in China- is a social network with a great pull among teenagers today.TikTok, which Musically bought in 2018, is a social network that could be compared to a mix between Vine and Snapchat, with which you can create very short videos, sharing and discovering, ranging from 15 seconds in length to a maximum of one minute .
