History of Social Media

By Noah Doty

  • Finding new ways

    Finding new ways
    Technology began to change very rapidly in the 20th Century. After the first super computers were created in the 1940s, many scientists wanted to make networks

  • 1960s

    1960s
    Compuserve is one of the earliest forms of the internet

  • First Social Media

    First Social Media
    in 1978, the computerized bulletin board is invented by Ward Christensen and Randy Suess

  • 1980

    1980
    BBS continued to grow in popularity

  • Sites dying out

    Sites dying out
    Moving into the 80s, there was GEnie, an online forum where people had discussions and played games – but without any graphics. GEnie was text-based, and although it was social, it died out in the 90s.

  • 1997

    1997
    First recognizable social media site Six Degrees was invented

  • Social media's beginning ends

    Social media's beginning ends
    WorldCom, and CompuServe was struck in September 1997. Some branches of the company continued on under the new umbrella until CompuServe’s life as an ISP came to a quiet end on June 30, 2009.

  • 1999

    1999
    First blogging sites were starting to become popular

  • 2004 A giant is born

    2004 A giant is born
    In 2004 Facebook is created