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BBS (Bulletin Board System)
Late 70's first site with login options -
Usenet 1979
Posts news to news group. This media offered a network to the general public -
Compuserve
First chat introduced -
Prodigy Communications Corporations
Pioneered online portals and online news -
Introduction to Internet Relay Chat
File sharing, link sharing, and keeping in touch -
Introduction to ICQ
Multi user messaging and multiplayer games -
Six Degrees
Glimpses of first social media resembling that of today's feature like create profile and add friends -
Live Journal
First to introduce dynamic content on the blogs and forum, create groups and Internet -
Wikipedia
The online free encyclopedia was launched -
Friendster
Operated by allowing people to meet new people and increase their network -
Hi5
Included photo sharing, user groups, social gaming and status update -
MySpace
Private messaging, public comments posted to an user's profile -
The Facebook
Opened only for the Harvard University students -
Orkut
Owned by google, meet old and new friends, rate friends, change themes, etc -
Flickr
Photo sharing platform -
YouTube
First organized video streaming and video sharing platform -
Reddit
Entertainment and social networking platform -
Facebook
Best preforming social media website -
Twitter
A microblogging platform with a question and answer format