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History of Social Media

  • Invention of the Internet

    Invention of the Internet
    Robert E. Kahn invented the internet in 1983. It is known as the "network of networks". It opened up doors for one of the biggest revolutions in society.
  • Invention of the World Wide Web

    Invention of the World Wide Web
    Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. He has mixed feelings about his invention today.
  • Google was created

    Google was created
    Google was created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they attended Stanford University. It is the number 1 search engine used today.
  • MySpace was created

    MySpace was created
    MySpace was founded by Tom Anderson, Chris DeWolfe, and Jon Hart. It had 50.6 million viewers in 2015.
  • Creation of Facebook

    Creation of Facebook
    It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004. Every second there are 20,000 people on Facebook. It was the first social media site that blew up.
  • YouTube is here

    YouTube is here
    YouTube is a video-sharing website created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. YouTube has over a billion users, almost one-third of all people on the Internet.
  • Twitter was invented

    Twitter was invented
    Twitter is a microblogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams were the founders of Twitter. A total of 1.3 billion accounts have been created.
  • Pintrest was created

    Pintrest was created
    Pintrest was created by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp. Pintrest has 250 million users and is the fastest growing website by overall member growth.
  • Instagram arrives

    Instagram arrives
    Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook. It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. More than 40 billion photos have been shared in the Instagram history.
  • Snapchat was created

    Snapchat was created
    Snapchat is a multimedia messaging app used globally and was created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown. Snapchat has over 100 million users everyday.
  • Tinder was created

    Tinder was created
    Tinder was launched by Sean Rad, Justin Mateen, Jonathan Badeen, Joe Munoz, Whitney Wolf, and Chris Gylczynski in September 2012. Tinder gets 1.6 billion swipes per day.
  • Vine was founded

    Vine was founded
    Vine was founded by Dom Hofmann, Rus Yusupov, and Colin Kroll. Vine had 200 million active viewers and 1.5 billion loops.