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The History of Social Media

  • CompuServe

    CompuServe
    CompuServe was created and it was one of the first major commercial internet providers in the United States. The technology they used was dial-up to connect to the web.
  • First computer

    First computer
    1977 the first computer was created and it all started from here.
  • Email

    Email
    In 1978 V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai held the first copy right for EMAIL. He modeled it after a communication system that was being used at the University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Jersey.
  • Domain names

    Domain names
    1984 the DNS or Domain name systems were created. ex: (.com, .org, .edu) etc.
  • Chat rooms

    Chat rooms
    The first known chat room was created and launched.
  • World Wide Web

    World Wide Web
    1991 WWW was created or also known as the world wide web.
  • Google

    Google
    1998 Google was created
  • Friendster

    Friendster
    In 2002 Friendster was created by Jonathan Abrams, this was the first known social network
  • Facebook

    Facebook
    2004 Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg
  • YouTube

    YouTube
    YouTube was created in 2005 by 3 men who also worked for PayPal
  • Twitter

    Twitter
    In 2006 Twitter launched
  • MacBook

    MacBook
    2006 the first MacBook launched from Apple
  • Tumblr

    Tumblr
    in 2007 Tumblr was created; a very popular blogging site that is popular now with millennials
  • iPhone

    iPhone
    January of 2007 the first generation of the iPhone was created
  • Snapchat

    Snapchat
    Snapchat was created in 2011, changed the way people connected with each other through pictures and video
  • Instagram

    Instagram
    In October 2011 Instagram was created as a free mobile app for iPhone and Android users