Timeline of Social Media By jordanslusser 1983 Researchers assembled the Network of networks 1990 Tim Berners Lee invented World Wide Web 1994 first chatroom "The Palace" becomes popular 1997 Six degrees is launched 1999 Blogging sites become popular 2001 Wikipedia is created 2003 Myspace/Linked in are launched 2004 Facebook is created 2005 YouTube is born 2006 Twitter is created, Facebook is released to public 2010 Instagram launched 2011 Snapchat is created 2013 Vine is created 2016 Vine dies 2018 Mark Zuckerburg trial