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SixDegrees.com Founded
SixDegrees is created, which is said to be the first social media website ever made. It follows the "web of contacts" model of social networking. -
AOL messenger created.
AOL the first "instant" messaging website is created. -
Yahoo! Messenger released
Yahoo! messenger, a popular instant messaging platform, is released. -
MSN launches.
MSN Messenger (also known as Windows Live Messenger), a popular messaging, video and voice calling service, launches -
Habbo Launches
Habbo, the first game based social networking platform is launched. -
LinkedIn Launches
Business related social media and job finding website LinkedIn is launched. -
MySpace launches
MySpace - one of the most popular social media websites of all time, is released. -
Skype launched
Skype, the most popular instant video communication tool of all time, is released. -
Facebook launches
Facebook, still to this day the most popular social networking site in the world, is released. -
Youtube Launches
Youtube, the largest video sharing website of all time, launches -
Twitter launches
Twitter, one of the current most popular social network in the world, launches. -
Tumblr is launched
Tumblr, an image sharing and microblogging service is released. -
Instagram launches
Instagram, a photo and video sharing medium, is released. -
Snapchat is launched
Snapchat, an instant photo/video sharing service is launched.
