-
1844
Samuel Morse sent a telegram from DC to Baltimore -
1969
Arpam wanted to connect universities on a proto-internet -
1971
First Email Sent by Rea Tomlinson -
1986
Eric Thomas developed the concept of an automated mailing list manager. -
1988
Internet Relay Chat was an open protocol that allowed users with IRC clients relay text messaged in real-time over the internet -
1997
The start of social sites -
1999
Creativity and status blogs -
2002
Friendster one of the first social media sites is created and launched by Peter chin, Jonathan abrams, and Dave lee -
2003
Linkedin gave users a place to post their resumes and find jobs -
2004
Gmail creates its own email services -
2004
Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg -
2005
Youtube become a platform where users could upload and share videos. -
2006
Twitter was created and is unique because you can easily share your message in only 140 characters -
2006
MySpace become the most popular network in the US in 2006 -
2009
Whatsapp app which is one of the only social media platforms without any ads. -
2010
750 tweets on twitter per second. 65 million tweets a day are being sent out on Twitter -
2010
Instagram, the only app which really competed with Facebook. Users can share upload and create photos. -
2011
Snapchat. Now you can see the story in almost every social media platform. People love the idea of disappearing messages, photos, and videos after 24 hours. -
2013
SELFIE. The craze of the selfie in 2013 in the same year oxford dictionary names selfie as the word of the year. -
2015
Filters. From cat to dog filters, pictures became more creative with the use of filters. -
2017
Tik-Tok was created. Lets users share music videos that are 3-15 seconds. -
2019
The next generations of social media platforms will be based on artificial intelligence and machine learning.
