History of social media (2000's-present)

  • Wikipedia

    The free encyclopedia launched in 2001 by its two founders Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.
  • Myspace

    Social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos
  • facebook

    First it was a social network in Harvard University created by Mark Zuckerberg
  • Flickr

    An image hosting and video hosting website, and web services.
  • Youtube

    Video-sharing website created by three former PayPal employees.
  • Twitter

    An online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets".
  • Tumblr

    A microblogging platform and social networking website founded by David Karp and owned by Yahoo! Inc.
  • snapchat

    A video messaging application created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown.
  • Vine

    Vine is a short-form video sharing service where users can share six second-long looping video clips.