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ICQ
ICQ ("I seek you") is an instant messaging client and the first of its kind to be widely used on the Internet, through which it is possible to chat and send instant messages to other users connected to the Internet. ICQ. ... Since April 2010 it is owned by Mail.ru Group. -
SixDegrees.com
Six Degrees is a social networking service website that initially lasted from 1997 to 2001 and was based on the Web of Contacts model of social networking. -
Friendster
Mountain View, California-based social networking service founded by Jonathan Abrams and launched in March 2003. The company was sold in 2015 and became a social gaming site based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Before Friendster was redesigned, -
LinkedIn
It is the leading social network oriented to business use, business and employment. On LinkedIn, people create their professional profiles, join groups linked to professional development, and share information that promotes their industries or careers. LinkedIn is a social network where people can openly connect in order to do business or grow professionally. -
Delicious
This social network was a social bookmarking management service on the web. It allowed to add the bookmarks that are typically saved in browsers and categorize them with a labeling system or tags. Not only can you store links to websites, but you can also share them with other del.icio.us users and determine how many have a certain link saved in their bookmarks. Sold to Science Inc in May 2014. -
MySpace
It is the leading social network oriented to business use, business and employment. On LinkedIn, people create their professional profiles, join groups linked to professional development, and share information that promotes their industries or careers. LinkedIn is a social network where people can openly connect in order to do business or grow professionally. Founded in December 2002 by Reid Hoffman, Allen Blue. -
Facebook
The most popular social network in the world. The American company, located in Menlo Park, California, offers online social media and social networking services. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, along with other Harvard University students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. It is available in Spanish since February 2008. -
Youtube
YouTube.com is the leading social network for video distribution. The company was founded in 2005 by three former Paypal employees. In 2006, after rapid growth, YouTube was acquired by Google. Today, YouTube.com features a variety of movie clips, TV shows, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as vlogging, education, and YouTube Gaming. -
Twitter
The evolution and history of social networks was impacted by Twitter, the first microblogging service, based in San Francisco, California, USA, with branches in San Antonio (Texas) and Boston (Massachusetts) in the United States. Twitter, Inc. was originally created in California, but has been under the jurisdiction of Delaware since 2007. -
StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon is a commercial website that integrated a social network that allowed users to exchange pages of interest online primarily using a toolbar available as an extension for Firefox, Mozilla Application Suite, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome browsers. On May 30, 2007 StumbleUpon was acquired by the eBay company for the sum of 75 million US dollars. -
FriendFeed
It was a real-time aggregator that allowed news updates from media and social networks, blogs and microblogs, as well as any news source in RSS and Atom formats, to be viewed in one place. With the consolidated information, new conversation threads could be created that could be shared with friends. It was closed on April 9, 2015, citing a very considerable drop in users. Bought by Facebook through deals. -
Wave
It is a discontinued software framework for real-time online collaborative editing. Google originally developed it as Google Wave. It was announced at the Google I/O conference on May 28, 2009. The project was discontinued on January 15, 2018.
On August 4, 2010, Google announced that it was abandoning development of Wave, citing its lack of reception. -
Quora
Question and answer social network created in June 2009, launched as a private beta in December 2009 and publicly available since June 21, 2010. The Quora service allows you to ask questions and give answers. Users can comment on questions and rate them by upvoting or downvoting. You can see, for example, answers to the question about common mistakes when creating an online store. -
Pinterest
It is a platform that allows users to create and manage, in personal thematic boards, collections of images such as events, interests, hobbies and much more. Users can search for other pinboards, “repin” images for their own collections. -
Instagram
Social network of American origin, owned by Facebook, whose main function is to be able to share photos and videos with other users. It is available for Android, iOS and Windows 10 devices. You can listen (in English) to the interview with the founders of Instagram in the podcast “How I built This.” -
Google Plus
Another social network owned by Google. The network was launched on June 28, 2011 which replaced Google Buzz in a bid to challenge other social networks like Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. It was designed to link Google products like Blogger and YouTube. However, like Google Wave (2009–2010), Google Buzz (2010–2011) and its successor Google+ (2011–2019) never caught on. -
Snapchat
Snapchat is a messaging application for smartphones with multimedia support of image, video and filters for augmented reality photos. Its biggest feature is short-lived messaging, where images and messages can be accessible only for a certain time, such as 24 hours, chosen by users. It was created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown, when they were students at Stanford University (United States). -
Vine
It was a website created by Dom Hofmann and Rus Yusupov in June 2012, and acquired by Twitter in October of the same year 2012. It allowed the creation and publication of short videos that were played in a loop (continuous playback), with a maximum duration of 7 minutes. seconds, a limit that was later extended to 140 seconds on June 20, 2016. It is currently known as Byte and can be considered the forerunner of Tik Tok. -
Tik Tok
A recent addition to the history of social networks is Tik Tok. This is one of the few relevant social networks that was born outside the United States (in China). It is an application to create and share short videos. The app allows users to create short music videos of 3–15 seconds and long videos of 30–60 seconds. It is a leading video platform in Asia, the United States and other parts of the world.