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The Birth of Social Media
The First Social Media site, known as Six Degrees was launched. It was the first site that had public acceptance as what is now known as Social Media. It lasted until 2001.
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AOL launches AIM
Laying the groundwork for the future for all social media, AOL launches its AOL instant messenger, or AIM. AIM was a first for group messaging, contact listing, voice messaging as well as many other features that would later define the way we use social media today.
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Xanga opens for bloggers
Xanga is a video and book review site. It was capable of allowing all users to share their thoughts and feelings about various content. It reached nearly 27 million users by 2006
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Napster begins music sharing
Napster was a company that organized a way for mp3 files to be shared with other users. It is set in the Guinness book of world records as the fastest growing business ever. Despite its early success, Napster was forced into bankruptcy in 2002 following A&M Records Inc. vs Napster, in which A&M Records sued Napster for Copyright infringement.
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Expanding the Internet
Around 100 million people had access to the internet and it became common practice for people to socialize of the net
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Social Media Surges
Social Media became a growing fad with the birth of MySpace. Although Six Degrees was officially the first social media site, MySpace was the site that set social media to the shape it has today.
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LinkedIn becomes reality
LinkedIn is a social media platform that was created for networking between businesses, employers, employees, and potential job candidates. It stepped away from the stereotypical social media uses, and focused more on professional functions -
Zuckerburg releases Facebook
Mark Zuckerburg created the social media website Facebook to allow people to check in to the daily lives of their friends without having to be around them. The site was origionally meant for Harvard students, but after great success, Zuckerburg decided to release it to the entire world.
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Video media debuts
Youtube was a very unique form of social media upon its release. The site had the idea of allowing users to upload videos to the site for the public to watch and comment on. -
Twitter Emerges
A few years after facebooks release, Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, Noah Glass and Evan Williams create Twitter. Inspired by the idea of SMS and texting, the four created this sight to allow users to give brief updates on the fly, allowing only 140 characters to be used in a single post. -
Instagram revolutionizes photo sharing
Instagram was a platform created to take and share pictures on the run. It also allowed picture editing, videos, filters as well as other functions. -
Zuckerburg before the senate
Mark Zuckerburg gives his testimony to the US Senate after news leaks surfaced that the Facebook CEO was selling the information of all users on facebook to outside companies
