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Compuserve
Short for CompuServe Information Service, one of the first and largest online services. CompuServe supports a wide array of forums and provides many types of electronic-mail services. In addition, it is connected to hundreds of different database systems.
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BBS (Bulletin Board System)
A bulletin board system (BBS) is a computer or an application dedicated to the sharing or exchange of messages or other files on a network. Originally an electronic version of the type of bulletin board found on the wall in many kitchens and work places, the BBS was used to post simple messages between users. -
Usenet
An early non-centralized computer network for the discussion of particular topics and the sharing of files via newsgroups. Usenet is a collection of newsgroups where the users can post messages and these posted messages are distributed via Usenet servers.
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Introduction to Relay Chat
File sharing, link sharing, & keeping in touch. -
Introduction to ICQ
Multi-user messaging. multi-player games, made emoticons,
ICQ is an instant messaging computer program that was first developed and popularized by the Israeli company Mirabilis in 1996. The name ICQ stands for "I Seek You".Its ownership was passed to AOL in 1998 and to Mail.Ru Group in 2010. -
6 Degrees
SixDegrees.com was a social network service website that lasted from 1997
to 2001 and was based on the Web of Contacts model of social networking. It was named after the six degrees of separation concept and allowed users to list friends, family members and acquaintances both on the site and externally; external contacts were invited to join the site. Users could send messages and post bulletin board items to people in their first, second, and third degrees, and see their connection -
LiveJournal
A social networking service based in San Francisco, California, where Internet users can keep a blog, journal or diary.
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Wkipedia
The online free encyclopedia was launched. -
Friendster
Friendster was a social gaming site based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was previously a social networking service website Before Friendster was redesigned, the service allowed users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts.The website was also used for dating and discovering new events, bands and hobbies. Users could share videos, photos, messages and comments with other members via profiles and networks. -
Hi5
Hi5 had many typical social networking features, such as friend networks, photo sharing, user groups, and status updates. In a 2009 redesign, hi5 added a number of features oriented toward gaming and entertainment.The site featured over 200 games in a variety of genres, and was adding games at a rate of 2-3 per week. -
Myspace
Myspace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. -
Orkut
Orkut was a social networking website owned and operated by Google. The service was designed to help users meet new and old friends and maintain existing relationships.
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Facebook
Users can create a user profile, add other users as "friends", exchange messages, post status updates and photos, share videos, use various apps and receive notifications when others update their profiles. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists such as "People From Work" or "Close Friends". Also users can complain or block unpleasant people.
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Flickr
Image hosting and video hosting website and web services suite that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, and effectively an online community, the service is widely used by photo researchers and by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media. -
Youtube
YouTube is a video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States. The service was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005. In November 2006, it was bought by Google
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Reddit
Reddit is an entertainment, social news networking service, and news website where registered community members can submit content, such as text posts or direct links, making it essentially an online bulletin board system.
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Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets". -
Tumblr
Tumblr is a microblogging platform and social networking website founded by David Karp and since 2013 owned by Yahoo! The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. -
Whatsapp
WhatsApp Messenger is a proprietary cross-platform instant messaging client for smartphones. It uses the Internet to send text messages, images, video, user location and audio media messages to other users using standard cellular mobile numbers.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=16&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiekZKR6JPLAhUQ52MKHd5YBQYQ1ScIXTAP&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Ftechnology%2Farchive%2F2014%2F02%2Fwhy-facebook-just-spent-19-billion-on-a-messaging-app -
Snapchat
Snapchat is a video messaging application created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown
when they were students at Stanford University.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/11/what-is-snapchat/281551/
