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When you look at the history of social media it started as a small device to relay information and become a huge group of things that allow communication around the world. With each change it allowed more and more people access and also allowed it to reach further. We went from a small telegraph that sent codeto a single location , to large complex group of codes that send music, video, and conversations to many locations everywhere
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The Chappe Brothers sent the message "si vous réussissez, vous serez bientôt couverts de gloire" (If you succeed, you will soon bask in glory) between Brulon and Parce, a distance of 16 kilometres
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The first commercial US telephone exchange opened in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Marconi transmits first radio signals from his father's Bologna property
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NBC becomes the first radio station to broadcast in the US
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TV is introduced at the NY World's Fair
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MIT Develops Compatible Time Sharing System (CTSS) and firt mail command is added.
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Tim Berners-Lee develops the world wide web and tests at CERN
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Online Newspapers and Magazines start appearing
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This first blog sites go live on the internet allowing for a new form of social media
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social media sites such as Facebook and my space hit the web throughout this time span there is an increase in the amount of new social media sites breaking on the net everything from flickr to vine to new things such as snap chat and music.ly.
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Flickr is created and allows another avenue for sharing photos
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YouTube is created allowing users to share videos on the internet
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Twitter is created allowing users to communicate in 140 characters or less
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Vine is created which allows for users to share short videos.
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