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Online Networks
The first online networks, such as CompuServe, are developed, providing online consumer services to those with personal computers. Link text -
Personal Computers
The first mail-order build-it-yourself computer kit, called the Altair, was introduced by Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS). Link text -
Start of Social Media Sites
Six Degrees was founded by Andrew Weinreich. Six Degrees was the first user-friendly platform that resembled the type of networks we use today. Users could create a profile and connect with others online. This stemmed the beginning of blogging and instant messaging. Link text -
Cellular Internet Access
The Blackberry 6210 was released. This integrated phone was the first to offer internet access to consumers from their cellular device. Link text -
Myspace
Myspace is released to the public and explodes in popularity. This social media profile site was the spark that led to even bigger networks like Facebook. Link text -
"The Facebook"
Mark Zuckerberg launched the first version of Facebook, which, at the time, was intended for student use at Harvard. It was later extended to other universities before exploding into the network we know it as today. Link text -
YouTube
YouTube was created, thus introducing a new platform for creators and anyone else with a video camera to share videos with the world. YouTube has become so popular since its launch that some creators have become famous and launched careers from their presence on the site. Link text -
Twitter
Inspired by the popularity of text messaging and SMS, Twitter was developed and launched. With it's 140-character limit, this platform became a simpler site where users would keep posts short and to-the-point. Link text -
Instagram
Instagram was born, bringing a unique way for users to share their life on their profiles through photo and video. This ever-growing platform provided users with a more convenient way of posting by linking multiple social media apps, thus allowing us to post to multiple sites at once. Link text -
Snapchat
Snapchat, the $15 billion app, first knows as "Pictaboo", was launched. Snapchat innovated a knew way to chat with your friends using pictures with a time limit. Starting with only 127 users, the app has since exploded in popularity and is used by world-wide. Link text -
Vine
The Vine app was launched. Vine introduced users with new aspects of video sharing. Despite having a six-second time limit, users were able to take and edit videos in the application, as well as create stop-motion videos due to one having to hold the record button through the duration of filming. 8 months after launching, the app was bought-out by Twitter for $30,000,000. Link text -
Death of Vine
After 3 years in the hands of Twitter, the Vine app was deactivated. With Instagram introducing video, Vine struggled to keep up in order to set itself apart from the competition. This created many issues, and inevitably resulted in the shut down of many user's favorite video-sharing app. Link text
