History of Social Media

First ARPANET Link Established

Oct 29, 1969

The first ARPANET link was established between UCLA and the Standford Research Intitute.

First Email Sent

Oct 1, 1971

The first electronic message was sent between two computers by Ray Tomlinson.

"Internet" term coined

Jan 1, 1974

The term “Internet” was coined by Vinton Cerf, Yogen Dalal and Carl Sunshine at Stanford University

Ethernet introduced

Jan 1, 1980

Ethernet was invented by Robert Metcalf. Introduced commercially in 1980

TCP/IP Becomes Standard

Jan 1, 1983

TCP/IP Becomes the standard for comunicating between computers on over the internet.

DNS Implemented

Nov 1, 1983

Paul Mockapetris creates the Domian Name System at the University of California.

First Dot-Com Registration

Mar 15, 1985

[First Domain](www.symbolics.com) First commercial internet domain name registered by symbolics.com

First Worm Virus

Nov 2, 1988

The first computer worm was released on the internet by Cornell student Robert Morris.

First Consumer Dial-Up Connection Available

Nov 1, 1989

First Dial-Up service provider was "The World"

Internet hits 2.6 million users

Jun 1, 1990

The internet now has 2.6 million users. 73% of those users were living in the United States and 15% were living in Europe. The only other countries with internet access at the time were Canada, Japan, Australia, Korea, and Israel.

World Wide Web Opens To The Public

Aug 6, 1991

The World Wide Web (what we know as "www.") opened to the general public. Creator Tim Berners-Lee posted a short summary of the project on alt.hypertext newsgroup.

Tripod as first onilne community

May 20, 1992

Tripod opened as comminity online for college students and young adults

CERN Donates WWW Tech

Jan 1, 1993

CERN donated the WWW technology to the world.

Mosaic Web Browser Released

Jan 23, 1993

Mosaic, what becomes the most popular web browser upon the realease of the World Wide Web to the public, is released. Also described as the first graphical web browser.

Yahoo! GeoCities is launched

May 20, 1994

Anyone can create a website with Yahoo! GeoCities.

Classmates.com as the newest social media

May 20, 1995

Classmates.com emerges as a way to keep up with old high school buddies.

I million websites

Feb 1, 1997

The web has one million sites

AIM Launch

May 1, 1997

AOL launches its instant messaging service.

SixDegrees launch

Jun 20, 1997

SixDegrees.com, a social networking site is launched.

Google launch

Sep 15, 1998

Google becomes a registered search engine and index

Napster

May 20, 1999

Napster, a peer-to-peer file sharing network, is introduced. Napster was generally used to share audio MP3 files amongst users, generally music. The sharing of music raised issues of copywrite infrignement and eventually ceased P2P sharing and later became an internet music store.

Wikipedia launch

Jan 15, 2001

Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger launched the website that had first been imagined by Rick Gates 1993.

Google Images launch

Jul 1, 2001

Intially offering only 250 million images as compared to the 10 billion plus images that can currently be found there.

iTunes Store Launch

Apr 1, 2003

iTunes iTunes was developed by Bill Kincaid and orginally launched in 1999 by Casady & Greene. It was renamed and revamped starting in 2000 when Apple, Inc. purchased it.

LinkedIn Launch

May 5, 2003

LinkedIn LinkedIn was created in December 2002, but did not launch until May 2003. It is a business-oreinted networking service.

Second Life Virtual World Launch

Jun 23, 2003

Second Life Second Life was developed by Linden Lab in 2003. It is a virtual place where users can interact through avatars.

MySpace Launch

Aug 1, 2003

MySpace The social network MySpace was launched by founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson.

Facebook Launch

Feb 4, 2004

Facebook The social network Facebook was launched by founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Google Launches Gmail

Apr 1, 2004

Gmail Google developer, Paul Buccheit, started Gmail as a project in 2001. Google finally released the software to the public in 2004.

World of Warcraft launches

Nov 23, 2004

Developed by Blizzard Entertainment and originally launced 10 years after the first game in Warcraft franchise.

Facebook Reaches 1 Million Users

Dec 30, 2004

Facebook Facebook reaches 1 Million users 10 months after launching

Youtube Launch

Feb 14, 2005

YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005.

Launch of Google Maps

Jun 1, 2005

Google Maps is a desktop and mobile web mapping service application and technology provided by Google, offering satellite imagery, street maps, and Street View perspectives, as well as functions such as a route planner for traveling by foot, car, bicycle (beta test), or with public transportation.

Google Purchased YouTube

Feb 1, 2006

Google puchased YouTube for $1.65 billion.

Twitter Launch

Mar 1, 2006

Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass and by July 2006, the site was launched.

Launch of Tumblr

Feb 1, 2007

Tumblr (stylized in its logo as tumblr.) is a microblogging platform and social networking website founded by David Karp and owned by Yahoo! Inc.

Launch of IPhone

Jun 29, 2007

Apple released first IPhone which allowed for social media applications to be used from cellular device.

Launch of Pandora

Jul 11, 2008

Pandora Internet Radio (also known as Pandora Radio or simply Pandora) is a music streaming and automated music recommendation service that serves as "custodian" of the Music Genome Project.

Launching of Google Chrome

Sep 1, 2008

Google Chrome is a freeware web browser[9] developed by Google. It used the WebKit layout engine until version 27 and, with the exception of its iOS releases, from version 28 and beyond uses the WebKit fork Blink.

Launch of Foursquare

Jan 1, 2009

Foursquare is a location-based social networking website for mobile devices, such as smartphones. Users "check in" at venues using a mobile website, text messaging or a device-specific application by selecting from a list of venues the application locates nearby.

Whats App

Jun 13, 2009

WhatsApp Inc. was founded in 2009 by US Citizens Brian Acton and Jan Koum (also the CEO), both former employees of Yahoo!, and is based in Mountain View, California.[1][2] The company employs 55 people

Pintrest Launched

Mar 1, 2010

Pintrest
Founded by Paul Sciarra, Evan Sharp, and Ben Silbermann

Instagram Launched

Oct 1, 2010

Instagram
Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger

WeChat

Jan 20, 2011

The application was initially launched as Weixin in China in January 2011

Timehop

Feb 1, 2011

Founded by Jonathan Wegener and Benny Wong

Google+

Jun 28, 2011

Google+
Google+ was created by Google

Snapchat

Sep 1, 2011

Snapchat was started by Reggie Brown and Evan Spiegel as a project for one of Spiegel's classes at Stanford University

Vine

Jan 24, 2013

Vine was founded by Dom Hofmann, Rus Yusupov, and Colin Kroll.

Google Glass created

Feb 1, 2013

Google Glass was developed by Google X

Tinder Launched

Sep 15, 2013

Tinder
Developed by IAC/InterActiveCorp

Google Glass Open to Public

May 15, 2014

Google Glass became officially available to the general public on May 15th, 2014, for a price of $1500.