History Of Social Media

  • Hand written letters
    550 BCE

    Hand written letters

    They had to hand write letters and deliver them by hand before the 1900's. In 550 B.C.
  • The Telegraph

    The Telegraph

    In 1792 the Telegraph was invented.
  • Morse code

    Morse code

    A message sent from Baltimore to Washington D.C.
  • The Pneumatic Post

    The Pneumatic Post

    Another way for letters to be delivered quickly between recipients. A pneumatic post utilizes underground pressurized air tubes to carry capsules from one area to another.
  • Arpan

    Arpan

    The military wanted to connect universities on a Proto-Internet
  • Chats and such

    Internet relay chats, or IRCs, were first used in 1988 and continued to be popular well into the 1990’s.
  • SixDegrees

    Six Degrees had a peak of about 1 million members
  • Creativity and status blogs

    Live journal was able to let friends see what is going in each others lives by doing blogs.
  • Friendster

    Considered a widely considered one of the biggest blunders of Silicon Valley
  • Linkedln

    Linkedln

    Helped people with business stuff to talk about it.
  • MySpace

    MySpace

    MySpace became the largest social media site in the world
  • Gmail Received

    Gmail Received

    google creates it's own email service
  • Facebook Begins

    Facebook Begins

    Facebook was launched in 2004 by Mark Zuckerburg. Was originally made for Harvard students then it became public for people over the age of 13.
  • birth of YouTube

    birth of YouTube

    people can upload and share videos.
  • MySpace

    MySpace

    MySpace became the most popular network in the U.S. during 2006
  • 750 tweets per second

    750 tweets per second

    65 million tweets are sent out a day, around 750 tweets per second
  • Launch of SnapChat

    Launch of SnapChat

    An image messaging app
  • Short Videos, Mega Views

    Short Videos, Mega Views

    Vine was created a video hosting service goes public in june
  • Instagram

    Instagram

    Instagram brings sponsored ads to the UK in September following there inclusion on the app in America
  • VR and Fake News

    VR and Fake News

    Virtual Reality, live videos, and 360-degree videos reigned all video content on social media site like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. There was a crackdown on fake news throughout social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter