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Aol.com
AOL is a web portal and service provider based in NYC. This was founded May 24, 1985. This website provided multi-player games and eventually was used to provide instant messaging. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL -
Myspace
Myspace was founded August 1, 2003. This is a social media website that was used for people to interact. People used this to have personal profiles and blogs to upload/ share pictures and videos. The sight became less popular in 2009.
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Facebook
This company was launched in 2004. Mark Zuckerberg, along with a few college roommates, founded this site. This site at first was originally meant for college students to interact but became much bigger and spread to the public. You can like, post pictures, write statuses, and have private messages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook -
YouTube
YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. This was founded on February 15, 2005. This gave many the opportunity to become famous after being discovered on this website. This is also owned by Google. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube -
Reddit
This was founded on June 23, 2005. This is an American Social News Aggregation, web content ratings and discussion site. This has also evolved into a website where you can stream live television as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit -
Twitter
witter is an American online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". Tweets were originally restricted to 140 characters, but on November 7, 2017, this limit was doubled for all languages except Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. This was founded March 21, 2006. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter -
Tumblr
Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007. This allows users to upload pictures and videos to create short-form blogs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumblr -
Pinterst
This site launched in March of 2010. This is a web and mobile app used to discover info on the world wide web. Mainly by using images, videos and gifs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinterest -
Instagram
This is a website and also an app. This was created on October 6, 2010. This is a video and photo sharing app where you can post anything instantly. This is also owned by Facebook. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram -
Snapchat
This was released in September of 2011. This is an app that is used for multimedia messaging. You can also subscribe to certain channels. This is the fastest way to share what is happening in the moment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapchat -
Tinder
Tinder was released September 12, 2012.This is a location-based social search mobile app that allows users to like or dislike other users, and allows users to chat if both parties swiped to the right. This app is known to be a matchmaking site. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinder_(app) -
Vine
Vine was a short-form video hosting service where users could share six-second-long looping video clips. The service was founded in June 2012. Before it was officially launched, Twitter acquired this app. This released January 24, 2013. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine_(service)
