Evolution of Media

  • ICQ

    ICQ
    ICQ New is a cross-platform instant messaging (IM) and VoIP client. The name ICQ derives from the English phrase "I Seek You". Originally developed by the Israeli company Mirabilis in 1996, the client was bought by AOL in 1998, and then by Mail.Ru Group in 2010.
    PERSONAL INSIGHT:
    I think it's interesting that people have many instant messaging services to use for communicating even though the technology is not that enhanced in that time.
  • XM Satellite Radio

    XM Satellite Radio
    XM Satellite Radio was one of the three satellite radio and online radio services in the United States and Canada, operated by Sirius XM Holdings. Its service included 73 different music channels, 39 news, sports, talk, and entertainment channels, 21 regional traffic and weather channels, and 23 play-by-play sports channels.
    PERSONAL INSIGHT:
    I really like radios because you only need the signal and it is just connected all throughout the neighbourhood making it easy to listen to music.
  • Linkedin

    Linkedin
    LinkedIn is an American business and employment-oriented online service that operates via websites and mobile apps. The platform is primarily used for professional networking and career development and allows job seekers to post their CVs and employers to post jobs.
    PERSONAL INSIGHT:
    I think this website is important in the past for the reason that people us to get jobs. This is where they recruit people for the right job or internships.
  • Myspace

    Myspace
    Myspace had a significant influence on technology, pop culture, and music. It was the first social network to reach a global audience. It played a critical role in the early growth of companies like YouTube and created a developer platform that launched the successes of Zynga, RockYou, and Photobucket, among others.
    PERSONAL INSIGHT:
    I haven't tried using this app or website but the reason that it is well known is that maybe many people use it before other platforms are made.
  • Skype

    Skype
    Skype is a proprietary telecommunications application that specializes in providing VoIP-based videotelephony, videoconferencing, and voice calls. It also has instant messaging, file transfer, debit-based calls to landline and mobile telephones (over traditional telephone networks), and other features.
    PERSONAL INSIGHT:
    It is cool to think that some people still use skype until now even though it is outdated, maybe because the app keeps updating and is trying to keep with the present.
  • Facebook

    Facebook
    Facebook is a social networking service it was founded by Mark Zuckerberg and fellow Harvard University students. The website's membership was initially limited to Harvard students but was expanded to other colleges and by September 2006, to everyone with a valid email address along with an age requirement of being 13 and older.
    PERSONAL INSIGHT:
    I really like this app and almost everyone is still using it now. People use this to keep updated with friends by placing pictures and changing status.
  • Gmail

    Gmail
    Gmail, a free, advertising-supported webmail service with support for Email clients, is a product from Google. Its interface has become integrated with many other products and services from the company, with basic integration as part of Google Account and specific integration points with services.
    PERSONAL INSIGHT:
    Personally, I really like this website because we can use this to transfer files from other devices and you can use it for communication, overall I think it's a really good website.
  • YouTube

    YouTube
    YouTube is an American online video sharing and social media platform owned by Google. It was launched on February 14, 2005. It is the second most visited website, with more than one billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day.
    PERSONAL INSIGHT:
    I mostly use this app for entertainment but it is good that you can also use it for information for as long as the source is trusted. I mostly spend my time using this instead of playing games.
  • Reddit

    Reddit
    Reddit is an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. Registered members submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, and videos, which are then voted up or down by other members. Posts are organized by subject into user-created boards called "communities" or "subreddits", which cover a variety of topics.
    PERSONAL INSIGHT:
    I really like Reddit and I like using it for the reason that it keeps me entertained in many variety of subjects.
  • Twitter

    Twitter
    Twitter is an American microblogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and retweet tweets. Users interact with Twitter through browser or mobile frontend software, or programmatically via its APIs.
    PERSONAL INSIGHT:
    In my opinion, I really do not like Twitter for the reason that people now use it for unreliable things, well there may be some accounts that give news but most of them are just nonsense.
  • Tumblr

    Tumblr
    Tumblr is an American microblogging and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007 and currently owned by Automattic. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs. For bloggers, many of the website's features are accessed from a "dashboard" interface.
    PERSONAL INSIGHT:
    I haven't used this website before but people use it to see or make their own blogs which I think is interesting.
  • WhatsApp

    WhatsApp
    WhatsApp Messenger, or simply WhatsApp, is an American freeware, cross-platform centralized instant messaging (IM), and voice-over-IP (VoIP) service owned by Meta Platforms. It allows users to send text messages and voice messages, make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other content
    PERSONAL INSIGHT:
    I think people use this before when Messenger was not a thing and I think that is good for they can communicate easily.
  • Pinterest

    Pinterest
    Pinterest is an image sharing and social media service designed to enable the saving and discovery of information on the internet using images, and on a smaller scale, animated GIFs and videos, in the form of pinboards. The site was created by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp, and had over 478 million global monthly active users as of March 2021. It is operated by Pinterest, Inc., based in San Francisco.
    PERSONAL INSIGHT:
    This website is useful for getting the images you want.
  • Quora

    Quora
    Quora is a social question-and-answer website based in Mountain View, California, United States, and founded on June 25, 2009. The website was made available to the public on June 21, 2010. Users can collaborate by editing questions and commenting on answers that have been submitted by other users.
    PERSONAL INSIGHT:
    I kind of use this website to ask questions and it is really reliable for people who respond to the questions is well known to the topic.
  • Instagram

    Instagram
    Instagram is an American photo and video sharing social networking service founded by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. The app allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters and organized by hashtags and geographical tagging. Users can like photos and follow other users to add their content to a personal feed.
    PERSONAL INSIGHT:
    I kind of use this app only for putting stories and such and also just look at other pictures like my idols and friends.
  • Twitch

    Twitch
    Twitch is an American video live streaming service that focuses on video game live streaming, including broadcasts of esports competitions. In addition, it offers music broadcasts, creative content, and more recently, "in real life" streams. It was introduced in June 2011 as a spin-off of the general-interest streaming platform Justin.tv. Content on the site can be viewed either live or via video on demand.
    PERSONAL INSIGHT:
    I like this website because this is where I watch some gameplays.
  • Messenger

    Messenger
    Messenger is an instant messaging app and platform developed by Meta Platforms. Originally developed as Facebook Chat in 2008, the company revamped its messaging service in 2010, and subsequently released standalone iOS and Android apps in August 2011 and standalone Facebook Portal hardware for Messenger-based calling in 2018.
    PERSONAL INSIGHT:
    I really like this app and I know many people do mostly because this is what we use to communicate with our family and friends and with someone.
  • Snapchat

    Snapchat
    Snapchat is an American multimedia instant messaging app and service developed by Snap Inc., originally Snapchat Inc. It also allows users to keep photos in the "my eyes only" which lets them keep their photos in a password-protected space. It has also reportedly incorporated limited use of end-to-end encryption, with plans to broaden its use in the future.
    PERSONAL INSIGHT:
    I do not use Snapchat but I think it is interesting because I think they use pictures to communicate or something.
  • Tinder

    Tinder
    Tinder is an online dating and geosocial networking application. Users anonymously "swipe right" to like or "swipe left" to dislike other users' profiles, which include their photo, a short bio, and a list of their interests. Tinder uses a "double opt-in" system where both users must have "swiped right" to match before they can exchange messages
    PERSONAL INSIGHT:
    I think this is a good app for those people who want to meet or interact with someone they like, though I have no plan on using it.
  • Vine

    Vine
    Vine was an American social networking short-form video hosting service where users could share six-second-long, looping video clips. The Vine app was also used to try to browse videos, along with a group of videos that were uploaded by theme, and hoping that users could "trend" videos.
    PERSONAL INSIGHT:
    Vine is like TikTok but more entertaining because it's funny. Though it is gone now the memories and funny things people saw will still be remembered.
  • Telegram

    Telegram
    Telegram is a freeware, cross-platform, cloud-based instant messaging (IM) system. The service also provides end-to-end encrypted video calling, VoIP, file sharing and several other features. Telegram provides end-to-end encrypted voice and video calls and optional end-to-end encrypted "secret" chats.
    PERSONAL INSIGHT:
    I think telegram is a good app because it can also be used like messenger where you talk to someone.
  • Musical.ly

    Musical.ly
    Musical.ly was a Chinese social media service headquartered in Shanghai with a US office in Santa Monica, California on which platform users created and shared short lip-sync videos. Through the app, users could create 15-second to 1-minute lip-syncing music videos and choose soundtracks to accompany them, use different speed options (time-lapse, fast, normal, slow motion, and epic) and add pre-set filters and effects.
    PERSONAL INSIGHT:
    Nothing much this is just like TikTok but with many musics.
  • Periscope

    Periscope
    Periscope was an American live video streaming app for Android and iOS acquired by Twitter before its launch in 2015. It was discontinued in March 2021. The services of Periscope are available in the mobile application itself as well as on Twitter. Users of Periscope are able to choose whether or not to make their video public or simply viewable to certain users such as their friends or families.
    PERSONAL INSIGHT:
    I think this is just like twitch where people do livestreams.
  • Discord

    Discord
    Discord is a VoIP, instant messaging, and digital distribution platform. Users communicate with voice calls, video calls, text messaging, media, and files in private chats or as part of communities called "servers".[note 1] Servers are a collection of persistent chat rooms and voice chat channels that can be accessed via invite links.
    PERSONAL INSIGHT:
    I really like discord because I use it everyday, where I can chat with random people mostly my friends and have fun.
  • TikTok

    TikTok
    TikTok, known in China as Douyin, is a video-focused social networking service owned by the Chinese company ByteDance. It hosts a variety of short-form user videos, from genres like dance, comedy, and education, with durations from 15 seconds to three minutes. TikTok is an international version of Douyin, which was originally released in the Chinese market in September 2016.
    PERSONAL INSIGHT:
    I think TikTok is fine because it is entertaining but to be honest it has a bad reputation in some ways.
  • MS Teams

    MS Teams
    Microsoft Teams is a proprietary business communication platform developed by Microsoft, as part of the Microsoft 365 family of products. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Teams, and other software such as Zoom and Google Meet, gained much interest as many meetings have moved to a virtual environment. As of 2021, it has about 250 million monthly users.
    PERSONAL INSIGHT:
    MS teams is good because we use them to communicate and this is where people study especially in this time of the pandemic.
  • Adobe Premier Rush

    Adobe Premier Rush
    It’s a video editor and it seems to be the one Adobe plans on improving for the foreseeable future. The app boasts a near-professional experience with full video and audio support along with a multi-track timeline, various templates for things, and even some niche tools. It doesn’t have everything the desktop version of Premiere Pro has, but we expect the feature set to expand over time.
    PERSONAL INSIGHT:
    I think this is a good software for editing even though it needs to be paid.
  • Google Podcasts

    Google Podcasts
    Google Podcasts is a podcast application developed by Google and released on June 18, 2018 for Android devices. In September, 2018, Google Cast support was added to Google Podcasts. At Google I/O 2019, Google announced a web version of Google Podcasts for iOS, Android, and Windows.
    PERSONAL INSIGHT:
    I haven't used this application yet I think it is good to listen to other people's podcasts.
  • Valorant

    Valorant
    Valorant is a team-based first-person hero shooter set in the near future. Players play as one of a set of agents, characters designed based on several countries and cultures around the world. In the main game mode, players are assigned to either the attacking or defending team with each team having five players on it.
    PERSONAL INSIGHT:
    I haven't played this game yet but in my opinion, I really think that this game is really good for it is interesting and entertaining.
  • Revived Witch

    Revived Witch
    Revived Witch is a pixel-art mobile RPG with anime character layouts. Players will start their journey as a witch with a memory loss, and travel through parallel worlds, trying to unveil the secrets about the big war that almost jeopardized everything.
    PERSONAL INSIGHT:
    Personally, I like this game because I waited for it and it is really good. The gameplay and art style of the game itself is really amazing.