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USENET 1979
Post news to news group. The media offered a network to the general public. -
BBC Bulletin Board System
Late 70's first site with login -
Compuserve 1980
First chat introduction -
Prodigy Communication Corperation 1984
Online portals and online news. -
Internet Relay Chat 1988
File sharing, link sharing and keep in touch -
ICQ 1996
Multi user messaging multiplayer games made emoticons -
Six Degrees 1997
Glimpses of first social media resembling chat of today's features like create profile and add friends -
Live Journal 1999
First to introduce dynamic content on the blog and forum create group and internract -
Wikepidia 2001
The online free encyclopedia was launched -
Friendster 2002
Operated by allowing people to meet new people and increase their network -
Hi5 2003
Included photo sharing user social gaming and status update -
MySpace 2003
Private messaging public comments