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ARPANET
In 1969 the First message was sent over the ARPANET the Message was supposed to be Login. The system ended up crashing so the first message sent was "LO". -
Talkomatic
Talkomatic is the first online chat that can have multiple people in a chat. It was created by Doug Brown and David Woolley in 1973. -
Bulletin Board System (BBS)
The Bulletin Board System can be thought of, as the first form of social networking. People can use this to upload or download software, and do many other things on it. -
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM)
Aol created one of the first instant messenger programs that was followed by others like yahoo and msn. -
Friendster
Friendster was created in 2002 by John Abrams. Friendster was one of the first social media sights to have a million members. -
Myspace and Skype
Myspace was created so you could have friends on the sight and share music, photos, blogs, and videos. It was the largest social sight in the world from 2005 to 2009. Skype was was another social networking site, but it differed from most because it's focus was on video and voice calls -
Facebook
In 2004 Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg. It was originally only for students at Harvard University. Now Facebook is the largest social networking site to date. -
Youtube
Youtube launched in 2005 and is soley focused on video sharing. -
Twitter
Twitter is one of the most popular sites worldwide. It was Originally very popular in Brazil and India -
Newsfeed
Facebook updates to where it has a newsfeed and membership is now open to anyone. -
Google Acquisition
Google buys Youtube for 1.65 billion dollars. -
Instagram
Instagram focus is on photo and video sharing. It is later bought by Facebook in 2012 -
Snapchat
Snapchat similar to intstagram with photo and video sharing. The difference being that the photos and videos on Snapchat dissappear.
