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SixDegrees.com goes public
The site amassed around one million users before it was bought out for $125 million -
AmIHotorNot.com launches
One of the earliest causes of today's insecurities on social media. Made a return in 2014 as a dating app/game. -
Friendster launch
Dating site focused on helping people make more friends. Initial success was too much for the company's servers to handle, eventually leading to its demise. -
MySpace.com officially launches
One of the first huge social media platforms, stole the hearts of Friendster users. -
FaceMash launch
Mark Zuckerberg's attempt at a Hot or Not type of website while at Harvard. -
"The Facebook" goes pulic
Early edition of Facebook, gained 1 million users in its first year. -
Facebook.com
Mark Zuckerberg made the decision to drop the "the" after "facebook.com" was purchased for $200,000. -
YouTube officially launches
Soon-to-be internet staple "YouTube" offically drops after months of public beta testing. -
Twitter takes flight
Text message based apllication to share small updates amongst friends. -
LinkedIn launch
Once referred to as “Myspace for adults.” First to offer users paid premium packages -
The hashtag is born
One of Twitter’s early adopters, Chris Messina, proposed the "hashtag" for organizing tweets. -
Instagram official launch
Photo/caption sharing platform, quickly became extremely popular amongst young people. -
Pinterest launch
Social bookmarking app, once referred to as “digital crack for women.” -
Snapchat hits the App Store
Photo sharing app that got its early appeal from the fact that posts are only public for 24 hours at a time. Unlike most other social media platforms, Snapchat is most frequently used as a consistent messaging app. -
Facebook adds live-streaming
Facebook live has become one of the most used and most stable livestreaming platforms for creators. -
Instagram adds stories
Instagram was the first to steal the Story idea from Snapchat, but they were soon followed by Facebook, YouTube, and even Netflix. -
Twitter doubles the character limit
140 to 280 -
IGTV launch
Instagram now chose to take a page from YouTube and introduce longform video.
