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History of Social Media

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    AOL Instant Messenger (AIM)

  • Google

    Google
    • The very popular search engine called Google was invented by computer scientists Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
    • The site was named after a googol - the name for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros - found in the book "Mathematics and the Imagination"
    • Help to search the Internet and finds web pages for the user based on the keywords submitted [https://www.thoughtco.com/who-invented-google-1991852]

  • LinkedIn

    LinkedIn
    • Reid recruits a team of old colleagues from SocialNet and PayPal to work on a new idea. Six months later, LinkedIn launches.
    • Is a truly global company, opening its first international office in London and launching Spanish and French language versions of the site [https://ourstory.linkedin.com/]

  • Skype

    Skype
    • A telecommunications application software product that specializes in providing video chat and voice calls between computers, tablets, mobile devices, the Xbox One console, and smartwatches via the Internet and to regular telephones
    • Was founded by Niklas Zennström, from Sweden, and Janus Friis, from Denmark
    • On 10 May 2011, Microsoft Corporation acquired Skype Communications for US$8.5 billion [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype#History]

  • Myspace

    Myspace

  • Facebook

    Facebook
    • Social networking website and service where users can post comments, share photographs and links to news or other interesting content on the Web, play games, chat live, and even stream live video.
    • Created by Mark Zuckerberg along with Edward Saverin, both students at the college [https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-facebook-3486391]

  • Reddit

    Reddit
    -An entertainment, social networking, 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
    - In the mid 2010, Reddit overtakes Digg in search popularity
    - Was founded by University of Virginia roommates Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian
    [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Reddit]

  • YouTube

    YouTube
    • An American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California
    • Allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to favorites, report, comment on videos, and subscribe to other users. It offers a wide variety of user-generated and corporate media videos
    • YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube]
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    Yahoo! 360

    • Yahoo! 360 was a blog-focused social networking website designed to give users a place where they could connect with people that mattered to them the most.
    • Was originally launched to compete against MSN Spaces (later renamed Windows Live Spaces, which was then shut down in 2011) [https://www.lifewire.com/yahoo-360-yahoo-avatars-4123905]

  • Twitter

    Twitter
    • An idea of the co-founder Jack Dorsey had.
    • Twitter could be the SMS-based communications platform. Groups of friends could keep tabs on what each other were doing based on their status updates. Like texting, but not.
    • Some of the key early players in Twitter's history are Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan Williams [https://www.lifewire.com/history-of-twitter-3288854]

  • Tumblr

    Tumblr
    • A 17-year-old German high school student named Chris Neukirchen invented this tumblelog system, specifically for super-short blogging
    • A microblogging and social networking website
    • Users can follow other users' blogs. Bloggers can also make their blogs private [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumblr]

  • Ask.fm

    Ask.fm
    • Ask.fm cofounders Ilja and Mark Terebin
    • global social networking site where users create profiles and can send each other questions. It was once a form of anonymous social media that encouraged questions to be submitted anonymously [http://time.com/2923146/ask-fm-interview/]

  • Instagram

    Instagram
    • Instagram founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger unleashed the photo-sharing platform that, though they didn’t know it at the time, would soon become a selfie-filled, multi-billion-dollar beast used by 500 million people
    • One of the hottest trend that people use. [http://time.com/4408374/instagram-anniversary/]

  • Snapchat

    Snapchat
    • An image messaging and multimedia mobile application created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown,[6] former students at Stanford University, and developed by Snap Inc., originally Snapchat Inc
    • The company rebrands itself from "Snapchat Inc." to "Snap Inc." and unveils the Spectacles. It also prepares for an initial public offering (IPO) in 2017 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapchat]