History of social media

First commercial internet connection

Apr 30, 1969

Worlds first email

Apr 30, 1971

Cern Swiss organisatioon

Apr 30, 1992

Yahoo

Apr 30, 1994

goolge search engine

Apr 30, 1998

Friends Reunited

Apr 30, 1999

Wikipedia formed

Apr 30, 2001

Friendster 3 million 3 months

Apr 30, 2002

my space

Apr 30, 2003

facebook and flickr

Apr 30, 2004

twitter

Apr 30, 2006

The company Odeo relized that they need to make there company big they began brainstorming and came up with an idea of sms (short message service, texting for example) that lets a person to communicate with a group of people. They called it status then they looked in the dictoinary and twitter fitted the name perfectly.
http://profilerehab.com/twitter-help/history_of_twitter

facebook over took my space

Apr 30, 2008

facebook topped 1 billion users

Apr 30, 2012

Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg and he has now 1 million users, despite the chaos for the last past months. On thursday Mark announced that facebook has more than 1 billion active people each month. On Marks status he updated that helping a billion people connect to other people around the world felt amazing, it is the most thing he is proud of in his life.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/facebook-tops-1-billion-users-1.1211341

youtube topped 1 million users

Apr 30, 2013

youtubeGoogle announced in 2013 that YouTube is now at 1 billion users. Wolfram Alpha thinks there is 6.79 billion people on earth, which means that 14.7% of people in the world watch something on YouTube every month. Google says that YouTube reaches almost 1 out of every 2 people on the internet. If YouTube was a country it would be the planets third largest planet behind china and India. Google was criticized for paying too much for YouTube they bought it for $1.65 billion in 2006.

over 85% have internet access

Apr 30, 2014