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Email
The first primitive forms of email were developed during this time however it had only taken the form now recognized as email in 1972 as a result of Ryan Tomlinson's work. -
Chatrooms
The first chat rooms became up and active prior to the invention of email in 1973 when Doug Brown and David R. Woolley invented Talkomatic. These Chat rooms were easily accessible by people connected to the internet at which they could then chat online to people about variety of topics and discussions. Chatrooms maintained there popular well into the late 90's and are still available today. -
Six Degrees
Six Degrees was the first recognisable form of social media. It was very similar to facebook as it allowed user to make a profile and add friends. -
Blogging
The first blogging sites became popular around 1999 however the first blogging site itself known as links.net was invented by Justin Hall, in 1994. -
Linked In
LinkedIn is a business and employment-oriented service that operates via websites and mobile apps. The site itself was invented in 2002 and is still used prominently today. -
My Space
Myspace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. Myspace was the largest social networking site in the world, from 2005 to 2009. -
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service that has been used since 2004. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin, both students of Harvard University. Facebook now has over one billion active users and is one of the most popular social media services. -
Youtube
The invention of YouTube by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim created an entirely new way for people to communicate and share with each other across great distances. Youtube has grown massively since its invention in 2005 with 1 Billion active users each month. Youtube is an extremely popular tool in means of online sharing of content and is known for bringing people viral success from funny videos, music clips, blogs and more. -
Twitter
Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams. Twitter allows users to microblog their thoughts and opinions via the service, becoming extremely popular with more than 100 million users by 2012. In the same year users were seen to post 340 million tweets a day, brining it viral success and showing the success of its popularity still today. -
Instagram
Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking service which is owned by Facebook, Inc. However it was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger in 2010. Since its launch instagram has been extremely successful with around 800million active users as of 2017. -
Snapchat
Snapchat is a current and extremely popular form of multimedia messaging used globally. It was created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown in 2011 and since then data from 2017 shows that the app has over 158 million people using it every day, with users being said to open the app up to 18 times a day. Snapchat is therefore an extremely popular form of social media which allows users to share photos and videos extremely and quickly.
