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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
In 1792 the Telegraph was invented. -
Morse code
A message sent from Baltimore to Washington D.C. -
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
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
Helped people with business stuff to talk about it. -
MySpace
MySpace became the largest social media site in the world -
Gmail Received
google creates it's own email service -
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 Was originally made for Harvard students then it became public for people over the age of 13.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
people can upload and share videos. -
MySpace
MySpace became the most popular network in the U.S. during 2006 -
750 tweets per second
65 million tweets are sent out a day, around 750 tweets per second -
Launch of SnapChat
An image messaging app -
Short Videos, Mega Views
Vine was created a video hosting service goes public in june -
Instagram
Instagram brings sponsored ads to the UK in September following there inclusion on the app in America -
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
