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In 1844, Samuel Morse sent the first telegraph from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore.
Telegraphs have little to no resemblance to the elaborate networks that we’ve at the palm of our hands today. It has an important context to that first DM. -
In February 1978, the first public bulletin board system went live.
1973, Ward Christiansen and Randy Suess stuck in a snow storm get credit. There was a long-distance phone charge. Most of the users were serious computer hobbyists or commercial clients, but important step toward consumer or residential internet. it sets up for the future plat form of twitter. -
The Usenet community got its start in 1979
Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis, much like the BBS users could read and write thread posts. Usenet somewhat resembles an early-days Reddit. it is still running today. Google uses the system. -
1982, ARPANET launches
The National Science Foundation was behind the launch! In its quest to connect academic users at research institutions around the world. It was shut down in 1990 -
May 1997, AOL’s Instant Messenger
The chatroom was terminated in 2010. Chatroom integrated chat platforms like Facebook Messenger and Google Hangouts, the AIM product took the users and still exist today. -
LinkedIn
LinkedIn carved a niche for itself in the social networking field by focusing on connecting members for business, rather than social, reasons. -
Myspace
Within a month, 1 million people had signed up for the site, where they could connect with friends and enjoy the company -
Facebook
The site specifically for Harvard University students. Facebook unveiled the News Feed, which is the backbone of the site’s recognizable interface that exists to this day. -
Flickr
Flickr is more than just a photo-uploading platform. The backbone of Instagram. -
Youtube
Its first upload came a few months later, on April 23: “Me at the zoo". 20 million monthly visitors by the summer of 2006. Users could quickly and easily upload and share video content with friends -
Tumblr
Tumblr hosts over 138 billion posts. -
Foursquare
Allowed users to share their location with friends by checking into venues, restaurants, and the like. -
Instagram
First photos went live a few months prior in July. Facebook agreed to pay $1 billion for the app -
Pinterest
The company has made a few large partnerships in its history, including with Getty Images, Bing, Punchfork, and Livestar. -
Snapchat
originally they called it Pictaboo. As of June 2016, Snapchat boasts 150 million daily active users. -
Vine
I used to go to school with the vine stars Logan and Jake paul. -
Yik Yak
My first post was disliked badly. A year after launch, the founders had pledged to take seriously the issue of cyberbullying on their hands -
Periscope
The app had hosted 200 million streams by March 2016.
