History of Social Media Timeline

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  • Telegraph

    It was introduced first in 1792 when the telegraph was created.

  • Samuel Morse and The Telegraph

    Samuel Morse showed the first resemblance to social media when he sent a telegraph from Washington D.C to Baltimore

  • Telephone

    It was a huge help for social media when the telephone was created.

  • Radio

    It also was a big help for the radio to be created at this time.

  • Blogging

    Additionally, the emergence of blogging in the 1990s helped usher in the age of social media. The idea that an average person could log on to the internet and write about what they were thinking, feeling, and doing, and that these posts could be read by anyone at any time, and responded to, helped people begin to understand the full significance of the internet.

  • Six Degrees

    It was the first recognizable social media site, Six Degrees,.

  • Blogging

    In 1999, the first blogging sites became popular, creating a social media sensation that’s still popular today.

  • Live Journal

    Live Journal was a site created to inform and keep friends updated with each other lives

  • Friendster

    It was one of the first social media sites, and it did so well that they say that it was a challenger to six Degrees.