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History of Social Media

  • BBS

    BBS (Bulletin Board System) was the first public dial-up BBS was developed by Ward Christensen and Randy Suess.
  • AOL

    AOL
    America Online (AOL) is an American multinational mass media corporation based in New York
  • World Wide Web

    Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
  • Match.com

    The day before the interview, Match Communications Director Trish McDermott gave Kremen specific instructions: don't wear black or white, don't wear a shirt with busy patterns, and don't say anything controversial. The next day, Kremen came into the office in a tie-dyed shirt, wanted to do the interview from a brightly colored bean bag chair, and shocked everyone in the room when he said to the camera, "Match.com will bring more love to the planet than anything since Jesus Christ."
  • Wikipedia

    Wikipedia
  • Friendster

    Friendster
    Friendster was a social gaming site based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was originally a social networking service website.
  • LinkedIn

    LinkedIn
    LinkedIn has become the de facto platform for all business professionals on the planet.
  • Myspace

    Myspace
  • Facebook

  • YouTube

    YouTube
    The service was created by three former PayPal employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim in February 2005
  • Twitter

    Twitter
    On March 21, 2006, @Jack sent the first tweet: “just setting up my twttr.” It would be the beginning of a revolution.
  • First iPhone

    The first advertisement for iPhone, titled "Hello," aired during the 79th Academy Awards on February 25, 2007, on American Broadcasting Company (ABC). On June 4, 2007, Apple released four advertisements announcing a June 29, 2007, release date.
  • Pinterest

    Pinterest
    Ben Silbermann is the CEO and visionary cofounder behind Pinterest, which grew from 5,000 users in August 2010 to 17 million this month.
  • Instagram

    Instagram
    From the very beginning, Instagram was set to be a success story. In fact, it had 1 million users just 2 months after its launch and it kept on growing ever since
  • Snapchat

    Just a little over four years ago, Snapchat was supposedly just an idea that founder Evan Spiegel and friends had while in a class at Stanford. Now, over 100 million active users and 7 billion daily video views later it's one of the top used apps.